Todd Blanche attorney general confirmation and tenure
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Commentary on Potential Impact of Trump's Attorney General Pick on Abortion Rights
Todd Blanche previously served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer.
The state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against the FDA seeking to bar mifepristone from being prescribed via telehealth.
In 2022, the Biden Justice Department determined that medical providers could not be prosecuted under the Comstock Act for mailing abortion pills.
“If states have said, ‘We are going to protect the unborn and we’re going to protect every life from the moment of conception,’ we’re putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations can’t attack that. They can’t do things like they’re doing with mailing in mail-order drugs.”
Todd Blanche narrowly confirmed as Trump's attorney general in overnight Senate vote
Blanche served as a lead attorney on Trump's defense team during the hush money trial in New York.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy was the decisive vote who threw his support behind Blanche on Friday morning.
Blanche entered the Justice Department last year as deputy attorney general under Bondi.
Senate panel delays vote on Todd Blanche attorney general nomination; Trump threatens to pull nomination
“The fact that they’re balking at putting that in writing tells me that they were hoping to get by with this settlement agreement and his testimony and then revitalize those provisions at a later date and that’s, I don’t think, good-faith negotiations,”
Todd Blanche attorney general confirmation hearing
Todd Blanche said a federal judge in Miami has prohibited the release of the second volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump.
Sen. Adam Schiff pressed Blanche on whether he met with Justice Department ethics lawyers about his prior representation of Trump.
Sen. Josh Hawley raised records made public by Grassley showing that members of Jack Smith's team obtained text messages from the National Archives and Records Administration from 44 members of Congress.
“I think Robert Caro had it right when he said that power doesn't corrupt as much as it reveals. I suspect it has just revealed who you are and who you are as someone willing to sacrifice everything you once believed in for that title, for that position of attorney general,”
Trump attorney general pick Todd Blanche faces confirmation hearing
“We would look at the evidence. Where are they getting the evidence? Are these randomized, controlled trials? Are these cohort studies? Are these test-negative design studies? We would make sure we understood the weight of the evidence that they use to make those recommendations, and if the weight of the evidence isn’t there, or if the science is questionable, you have my commitment that I would not at all, ever, agree to those recommendations.”