Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s principal focus in recent weeks has been lining up support on Capitol Hill ahead of his upcoming Senate confirmation hearings, with a specific focus on winning over GOP skeptics. But Donald Trump’s controversial former defense attorney has more troubles than lining up 51 votes, reported MS Now.
As this
week got underway, Democracy Defenders Fund, Lawyers Defending American
Democracy and a group of 101 former federal and state judges filed a complaint
against Blanche with the New York State Bar, which included a formal request
for an ethics investigation.
The 73-page
complaint specifically focused on three areas of alleged misconduct:
Blanche’s
role in orchestrating the creation of a $1.776 billion compensation fund,
widely panned as a “slush fund,” and an IRS audit shield for the president and
his family.
Blanche’s
role in “abusing the investigative and prosecutorial powers” of the Justice
Department to target the president’s perceived political enemies, including
former FBI Director James Comey.
Blanche
supervising the DOJ’s “flawed response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
including the disclosure of thousands of records containing sensitive victim
information.”
Time will
tell what, if anything, comes of the complaint, but as the process moves
forward, it’s worth pausing to note just how frequently former judges have
become prominent and influential critics of the president and his team.
In early
November, for example, Judge Mark L. Wolf, a Reagan-appointed jurist, resigned
from the federal bench in order to give himself the freedom to warn
the public about the threats posed by Trump.
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