Todd Blanche Faces High-Stakes Senate Grilling in Bid to Become Attorney General
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, once President Trump's personal defense lawyer, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a contentious hearing to win the top Justice Department job. Senators pressed him on the Epstein files and DOJ cases against Trump's political rivals.
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You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
— Deuteronomy 16:19
The nation's chief law-enforcement post is measured against an ancient standard: justice without partiality.