You know, there is one vote, one action that will determine American values more than any other over the next couple months, and that is the nomination of Todd Blanch to be attorney general. If Blanche is confirmed, it’s a validation of all the lawless acts of the past year and a half. Critics are making a mistake if they focus primarily on the slush fund for Trump’s allies, including the January 6th criminals.
That was outrageous and grounds not to confirm him, but Blanche will elude or lie his way out of that. The same with Blanche’s mishandling of the Epstein scandal, desperately trying to protect Trump and giving special treatment to Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. But these are only the tip of the iceberg. The case is much bigger than that. The Justice Department’s lawlessness under Blanche, who’s run the department.
The Trump ordered political prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James, the mayor of Newark, the corrupt deal he cut with New York City’s former mayor, Eric Adams, in return for playing ball with Trump on immigration, the unprecedented number of grand juries that have rejected in d indictments sought by Blanche’s Justice Department, the political litmus test established for the FBI and the Justice Department, and the departure of thousands of Justice Department employees, including the best prosecutors, national security and civil rights attorneys.
If Blanche is confirmed, it’s a vote to continue all of these dreadful practices and the total politicalization of a lawless department of justice.
Two things can be true simultaneously.
1.) There are likely no nominations for any post from this regime that can be assumed unbiased and inservice to better governance.
2.) Mamdani’s success in his choice and support of his candidates is evidence of where the mood of the electorate is. Expect more….