Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney is now running the Justice Department, and his first act was to kill the law his client was charged under.
Todd Blanche defended Trump through two federal prosecutions, including the classified documents case built on the Presidential Records Act. Trump announced today that he had fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Blanche, the man who sat next to him when the charges were read, stepped into her role. Trump ally and FBI director Kash Patel spent the winter firing every FBI agent who touched that investigation. The prosecutors who built the case were gone before that. Within hours, Blanche’s Justice Department released an opinion declaring the law behind those charges unconstitutional.
Trump and Blanche had reason to be nervous. Special counsel Jack Smith testified to Congress in January that he had proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Three months later, every person who built that case is gone, and the law it rested on has been erased by the lawyer who fought it. Call your representatives through Resistbot and 5 Calls and demand they block any permanent attorney general nominee who won’t commit to enforcing the Presidential Records Act.
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