04/03/2026
Pam Bondi has been fired by Donald Trump. The new (de facto) Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is a Bill Barr-like character, heavily-linked to Jeffrey Epstein's treasonous child sex trafficking ring involved in elections theft and war crimes, including against their own people, COVID having murdered over a million Americans, and five more million worldwide, for a $16 trillion grift.
As our "Big Pictures" link at the top of the page specifies, Todd Blanche is indeed the perfect person to usurp, embezzle, misappropriate, take, defraud, and thus RICO corrupt the entire justice department in order to help Trump's, Epstein's, and Russia's treasonous child sex trafficking ring involved in stolen elections and war crimes against little kids.
Trump, the GOP, SCOTUS, and others have disqualified themselves from public office in an immediate and permanent manner, per Baude and Paulsen. Interestingly, Blanche has been there almost every step of the way in defense of Trump's and Ghislaine Maxwell's personal criminal matters for almost every disqualifying crime Trump committed.
This means that unlike Bondi, now Blanche can directly call the shots, but was very likely calling the shots already, with one of the people most knowledgeable about all of Trump's disqualifying crimes, including his treason crimes, which precede Blanche's DARVO attempt to pin treason charges and conspiracy charges on investigators using the elements of law and established facts to come to their conclusions Trump did commit treason, and so anyone helping him would also be aiding, comforting, and adhering to an enemy of the United States (per John Durham), and so it makes sense that someone furthering treason would want to DARVO the victims of treason conspiracy with treason conspiracy, and on brand with Epstein's clients' known sadism, to stalk and hurt the victims more. In one case they were blackmailing the parents of a child they were sex trafficking is a news heading I read the last week.
And why? Few others have such an impressive resume as to have led legal defense against so many of Trump's disqualifying crimes for what is shaping up to be the final showdown for the missing Epstein files, which are being obstructed by Aileen Cannon, because they prove beyond a reasonable doubt a treason conspiracy which began before Trump ran for President and before he became President, and so any treason witchhunt by Blanche or others will fail miserably when date-stamped documents will prove Trump's treason before SCOTUS immunity kicks in, and so any treason trial against Trump fails, as he disqualified himself from public office to RICO obstruct murder and endangerment of children at Roche, who hired Blanche's and Mueller's firm along with the Trump-Kushner family, and Mueller financing Edge group's Maja Oeri Hoffman's Roche in Alameda and CHORI is what started this all, for crimes with no statute of limitation, and overtly RICO obstructed via many spokes, include Todd Blanche's Epstein victim intimidation of the Editor of Uprights News with the "grand conspiracy", which fails by date-stamp.
And how many taxpayer dollars usurped, disappeared, and/or wasted as a result? Overtly furthering which conspiracy spoke, involving murdered and endangered kids again. A tough wrap to beat.
Prior to regurgitating Wikipedia on Blanche, below and above we list his resume highlights and why he is best qualified to RICO obstruct for Jeffrey Epstein's treason and other disqualifying conspiracy spokes with Trump and Russia 2012+, per our reporting here, and to the government.
Attorney to Jeffrey Epstein's and Russia's Donald Trump: Here this is super important for Trump's, Russia's, and Jeffrey Epstein's RICO obstruction with the GOP and MAGA that Blanche was the personal defense attorney for Russia's and Epstein's Donald Trump.
This makes Blanche an expert in Trump's disqualifying treason and elections fraud crimes with enemies of the United States is what Adam Schiff had Special Counsel John Durham admit, despite Jeffrey Epstein's William Barr (Barr's father was a pedophile fantasy novelist, Space Relations, and is who groomed Epstein) as Attorney General. This is Trump's Achilles tendon, disqualifying crimes before SCOTUS immunity kicks in 2012-2016. This is where the future legal fights will for sure swirl around.
But some of Trump's appointees have already been removed, and all of their changes to the government voided, and so this is Trump's other Achilles tendon, and Blanche is the RICO obstruction brace to Trump's cankles, and stops dumpy humpy from not being able to be put back together again, fall after fall after fall.
A warning to you Mr. Blanche, all of the pardons and clemency and changes can be voided and you can be prosecuted and jailed for the rest of your life -- or worse -- for furthering Trump's and Russia's and GOP's and MAGA's treason, insurrection, sedition, elections fraud, stolen documents, concealed documents, destroyed documents, disqualifying felonies, etc, and so tread lightly for your own sake, or better, run.
Blanche also was the personal representative of Rudy Giuliani, whose has been tied to the disqualifying crimes of the Bush family, Mueller, and elections fraud, but also to Jack Smith's report for disqualifying elections fraud and documents crimes, for which Smith said he had evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
And so three Special Counsels of the Trump administration concluded evidence supporting disqualifying crimes, whereafter all appointments born from the same become fruits of a poisonous tree, and all orders, and all prosecutions, etc, all moot.
Russia's and Trump Tower's Paul Manafort is who Blanche also was the attorney for. This makes Blanche one of the central bridges between Trump, the GOP, the tenants of Trump Tower, the Wildensteins linked to Edge group's Maja Oeri Hoffman, and the Russian military seeking to overthrow the United States by "engineering" Trump and GOP into power per the 11/03/2015 Sater-Cohen emails.
Blanche also represented Jeffrey Epstein's coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, and where the Edge group membership rosters of John Brockman funded by Epstein per the Epstein files released, included Epstein and Yuri Milner with Larry Page of Google and Maja Oeri Hoffman of Roche, after our Editor's investigation into the Epstein Class, Trump, GOP, and Russians in 2014 is the 2015 investigation Trump said he knew about in 2023, as Crossfire Hurricane would not start for a year later. Our Editor had named his investigation The Origins of the Mueller Investigation, but clearly he was stalked and his privacy violated, as months later Barr (who met with the Editor's brother along with GW, Jeb, Harlan Crow, Chris Christie, and others at Bohemian Grove, prior to Clarence Thomas unilaterally usurping the powers of Congress and the Executive branch to illegally and corruptly disqualify Jack Smith and the Editor of Uprights News, then that conspiracy Crow-Thomas, was furthered by Cannon, who has illegally sealed 1-3 million Epstein files that prove Aileen Cannon is not lawfully a judge. Res ipsa loquitur malum in se.
Blanche also represented Russia's and Trump's Boris Epshteyn.
Blanche also represented Russia's and Trump's Igor Fruman.
Blanche also represented Russia's, Trump's, and/or Roche's Hush Money Payments (Roche's hush money payments were made to RICO obstruct the Editor of Uprights News, being concealed by Aileen Cannon).
Blanche also was defense against Special Counsel Jack Smith Investigation (where the investigation of Uprights News ended up, see our Big Pictures link at the top of the page for a visual on all the crimes against us all).
Blanche is by default going to be the de facto personal attorney for Epstein's Edge group, Russia's 2012-2016 treason and elections fraud conspirators, and Trump's and the GOP's and Epstein Class's 2017+ disqualifying crimes.
Blanche was also inserted into a leadership role at the Library of Congress along with Harland Crow's Ginnie Thomas, and we suspect that was bury the genealogical work of Henry Eliot Scott, whose family is known to have a greater claim to the thrones of England and France than the current usurpers linked to Jeffrey Epstein, which we suspect prompted the Mountbattens to conspire with Epstein and the Edge group and the Wildensteins and Trump Tower tenants to conspire to RICO obstruct the lynched investigation of Uprights News, lynched 09/21/2014, which is why it would be impossible for our Editor to commit treason, him having discovered the treason of those accusing others of treason many years earlier, and before Trump was "engineered" into illegal power.
There can be no treason against someone who disqualified themselves from being becoming the targets of treason, when they disqualified themselves from public office is clear and reasonable and makes sense to everyone, as does a DARVO coverup alleging late treason after early treason was already accused. Not worried even a little bit as a result. A priori, a fortiori, stare decisis and the laws of disqualification.
Blanche also oversaw the DARVO 'Grand Conspiracy' into Trump Investigators accusing them of a treason conspiracy against Trump, which has to fail, because it was impossible to commit treason against someone who had disqualified themselves beforehand in a treason conspiracy with enemies of the United States, which permanently and immediately disqualified Trump and the GOP 2012-2016, and then thereafter because SCOTUS immunity only applies to people who were lawfully President, not bad behaving and bad faith de facto officers got by most of the disqualifying crimes on record.
And so Blanche has been by Trump's side, giving aid, comfort, and adhering to Trump to help Trump evade prosecution for his disqualifying crimes of treason with Russia (established by John Durham, Mueller, and the Janson Report), elections fraud with Russia (established by John Durham and Jack Smith, and per Smith, beyond a reasonable doubt), insurrection and/or elections fraud with attorneys like Blanche and Guiliani, stolen documents (evidence beyond a reasonable doubt), and also more than 30 felonies, each which disqualified Trump from public office and/or government service, per US laws. And so Blanche has been an important part of the ongoing RICO obstruction conspiracy of disqualifying crimes, maybe even the central strategist, now put in the seat to RICO obstruct it all, familiar with it all. So we can't think of anyone better than Blanche to continue to RICO obstruct the disqualifying crimes of Trump, the GOP, and others.
Wikipedia excerpts, "Todd Wallace Blanche (/blæntʃ/; born August 6, 1974) is an American attorney and former prosecutor who has served as the acting United States attorney general since April 2026. Blanche has also served as the United States deputy attorney general since January 2025 and as the acting librarian of Congress since May 2025; the legality of the latter appointment has been disputed.
Blanche graduated from American University in 1994 and from Brooklyn Law School in 2003. He worked in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's violent-crimes division for eight years. In 2017, Blanche became a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. In his personal capacity, he represented several figures associated with president Donald Trump and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, including Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort; the businessman Igor Fruman; and the attorney Boris Epshteyn.
In 2025, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to a deal with Donald Trump to do 100 million dollars' worth of pro bono work on behalf of causes promoted by Trump,[29][30][31] followed by mass resignations of lawyers.[32][33].
In April 2023, prior to his arraignment, Trump hired Blanche to defend him in the District Attorney's Office of New York County's prosecution of the former president over concealed hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels. Blanche later defended him in the federal classified documents and election obstruction cases. He led Trump's defense in his criminal trial.
In November 2024, following his victory in the 2024 presidential election, Trump named Blanche as his nominee for deputy attorney general. He was confirmed by the Senate in March 2025. In May, Trump dismissed the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, and named Blanche to succeed her. The staff of the Library of Congress and Hayden disputed Trump's authority to appoint Blanche without the consent of the Senate, arguing that Robert Newlen, the principal deputy librarian, was Hayden's lawful successor. After Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general in April 2026, Blanche became her acting successor.
After graduating from Brooklyn Law School, Blanche worked for Davis Polk as an associate and temporarily clerked for judge Denny Chin of the District Court for the Southern District of New York and judge Joseph F. Bianco of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York.[6] In 2006, he returned to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as an assistant United States attorney.[3] Blanche worked in the office's violent-crimes division for eight years, eventually becoming its co-chief. He later ran the district's branch office in White Plains, New York, alongside Mimi Rocah.[2] According to FT Magazine, colleagues believed that Blanche had been marked for a judicial nomination.[3]
After working in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Blanche joined WilmerHale as a partner.[7] That's Robert Mueller's old firm who represented Big Pharma (Hoffman La Roche, Novartis, Genentech, Kushner, Trump, and/or businesses).
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering was founded in Washington in 1962 by former Cravath attorneys Lloyd Cutler and John Pickering, along with a senior lawyer, Richard H. Wilmer. Cutler, who later served as White House Counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, founded the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in 1962 and served on its executive committee until 1987.[6]
In the 1980s, Cutler led the founding of the Southern Africa Legal Services and Legal Education Project, to aid South African lawyers who fought to implement the rule of law during apartheid. From 1981 to 1993, partner C. Boyden Gray, a prominent member of The Federalist Society, left the firm to serve as White House Counsel to Vice President and President George H. W. Bush. In 2003, partner Jamie Gorelick began serving as a member of the 9/11 Commission.[7]
[The Federalist Society was financed by Jeffrey Epstein's Google founders and Jeffrey Epstein's Chevron family (Rockefellers) along with Russia's Mercer Family linked to the 2012-2016 treason conspiracy by Trump, Russia, Jeffrey Epstein, the GOP, Cambridge Analytica (linked to Jeffrey Epstein's Mountbatten), and/or others.]
He joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft as a partner in 2017.[8] By June 2019, Blanche had begun representing the political operative Paul Manafort after he was indicted on state mortgage fraud charges in New York.[9] Blanche filed a motion to dismiss the charges on grounds that it violated New York's laws on double jeopardy;[10] the indictment was dismissed on the state's double jeopardy law in December, a decision affirmed by the New York Supreme Court in October 2020.[11] Blanche additionally represented the businessman Igor Fruman, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was implicated in the Trump–Ukraine scandal,[12] as well as the attorney Boris Epshteyn.[8] According to The New York Times, Blanche represented Manafort and Epshteyn in his personal capacity with the approval of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.[13]
Blanche leaving the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse after Donald Trump's arraignment
In February 2023, as Trump was set to be indicted in New York over concealed hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, he appointed Epshteyn to find lawyers to represent him. Epshteyn requested that Blanche assist him in the search.[2] In April, one day before he was set to be arraigned, Trump added Blanche to his defense team.[8]
That month, Blanche founded Blanche Law.[13] According to The New York Times, Epshteyn[8] and Manafort[14] referred Trump to Blanche.[8] The Times additionally reported that Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's reputational committee disagreed with Blanche's decision to represent Trump; Blanche, for his part, told associates that he was displeased at the firm's unwillingness to give him latitude.[13] After he was federally indicted for allegedly retaining classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trump removed James Trusty and John Rowley from his defense and named Blanche instead.[15] Trump largely relied on Blanche as he remained one of two lawyers, alongside Christopher Kise, to represent him in the case.[16] Blanche continued to represent Trump in the federal election obstruction case against him.[14] Prior to representing Donald Trump, Blanche was a registered Democrat. In 2024, he switched his party affiliation to Republican.[13]
Blanche led Trump's defense in his criminal trial in New York.[17] He sought to delay the trial past the 2024 presidential election, in which Trump was a candidate, a strategy that Trump's allies saw as successful; judge Juan Merchan granted Trump a limited three-week delay. Blanche developed a close relationship with Trump, and his litigation on behalf of the former president represented several claims that Trump had publicly alleged to discredit the prosecution, including that Trump was a victim of political prosecution.
Prior to the trial, Merchan criticized Blanche for using casual language in his court filings, for improperly accusing the District Attorney's Office of New York County of prosecutorial misconduct, and for not directly answering a question.[13] Additionally, Blanche's initial plan involved finding a juror who would force Merchan to declare a mistrial; the jury unanimously decided to convict Trump in May.[3] Blanche's defense strategy involved downplaying the payments and casting Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, and Daniels as unreliable narrators intent on seeking revenge or financial restitution from Trump.[18] In the trial, he loudly sparred with Cohen.[19] In November 2024, ABC News reported that Blanche's phone had been hacked by Chinese threat actors.[20]
In October 2024, documents obtained by ABC News indicated that Blanche was being considered as potential nominees for deputy attorney general and White House counsel, in addition to director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, if Trump were to win the 2024 presidential election.[21] Following Trump's victory in the election the following month, Blanche was expected to have a position in his administration.[22] On November 14, Trump named Blanche as his nominee for deputy attorney general.[23] Blanche appeared before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on February 12, 2025.
He defended Trump against perceived allegations of prosecutorial impropriety and cited his experience in defending Trump to claim that the president would not ask him to "do anything illegal or immoral".[24] In his testimony, Blanche claimed that he had no knowledge of plans to dismiss the criminal corruption case against New York City mayor Eric Adams; a draft letter by the interim United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, indicated that Blanche was on the "same page" about dismissing the case.[25] The committee voted to advance his nomination on February 27 in a 12–10 vote along party lines.[26] On March 5, Blanche was confirmed by the Senate in a 52–46 vote largely along party lines.[27]
On March 6, Blanche was sworn in. Hours later, he issued a memorandum shifting hiring for the Department of Justice towards the Mexico–United States border in an effort to bolster Trump's immigration policy. The order sought an exemption from the federal hiring freeze.[28] Blanche also issued a directive titled "Operation Take Back America", which reorganized the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces and Project Safe Neighborhoods to prioritize immigration enforcement, including the removal of undocumented immigrants with criminal records and the prosecution of individuals who obstructed deportations in sanctuary city jurisdictions.[29] The following day, he placed two prosecutors involved in the Adams case on leave.[30] He dismissed Liz Oyer, the pardon attorney. Oyer claimed that she was removed after she rejected Blanche's request to add the actor Mel Gibson to a list of individuals who should have their gun rights restored.[31] After The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence contradicted Trump's assertion that the government of Venezuela was directing the Tren de Aragua syndicate to commit crimes—a finding that was used as the impetus for invoking the Alien Enemies Act—Blanche announced a leak investigation.[32] That month, Blanche proposed combining the Drug Enforcement Administration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.[33]
In April 2025, Blanche dismissed Erez Reuveni, the acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation, for conceding in court that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man, should not have been deported.[34] That month, he barred the Department of Justice's lawyers from attending American Bar Association events[35] and disbanded the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team[36]; according to financial records, Blanche had several hundred thousand dollars in cryptocurrency.[37] According to camera footage released in a court filing, Blanche ordered the arrest of Newark mayor Ras Baraka over an incident involving an immigration detention center.[38] In a statement in June, Blanche argued that in attorney general Merrick Garland's tenure, the Department of Justice excessively prosecuted cases citing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and that the department would shift from prosecuting bribery cases overseas to conduct that harmed the United States's ability to compete abroad.[39]
As attorney general Pam Bondi sought to fire employees at the Department of Justice, including ten staffers who worked for Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted Trump twice, Blanche urged Bondi not to fire more employees, according to The New York Times.[40] Concurrently, several Trump loyalists were installed across U.S. attorney's offices in New York and New Jersey. According to the Times, Blanche told Trump that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York was particularly important as it covered John F. Kennedy International Airport, the largest air passenger gateway into North America, and that he should rely on veteran prosecutors.[41] Blanche disagreed with judges who appointed a federal prosecutor, Desiree Leigh Grace, to succeed Alina Habba as the interim United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, asserting that Trump had the right to remove Grace.[42]
See also: Epstein files
In July 2025, criticism over the Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein files, a set of documents associated with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, mounted. The controversy led to an open dispute between Bondi and the leadership of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly its deputy director, Dan Bongino. Blanche wrote on X that he had signed off on the memorandum determining that "no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted" in the investigation into Epstein alongside Bongino and the bureau's director, Kash Patel; the post insinuated that Bongino and Patel were as responsible for closing the inquiry as Blanche and Bondi.[43] Bondi and Blanche later requested that a court unseal grand jury testimony from his second federal indictment.[44] According to The Wall Street Journal, Bondi and Blanche informed Trump that his name was in the Epstein files in May.[45]
In leading certain responsibilities of the handling of the Epstein files, The New York Times described Blanche as having an "unusual, Janus-faced position". Although Blanche's involvement with Trump, an Epstein associate, was not believed to be a conflict-of-interest, it presented a complex situation. According to the Times, he personally signed the Department of Justice's motion to unseal grand jury testimony in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's accomplice, after the prosecutor who worked on the Epstein and Maxwell cases, Maurene Comey, was fired. Additionally, Blanche had a personal relationship with David Oscar Markus, Maxwell's counsel.[46] In July, Blanche requested a meeting with Maxwell.[47] In preparation for the meeting, Blanche allowed Markus to access grand jury testimony, a move that could have allowed Maxwell to obtain information useful in seeking an appeal for her conviction.[46]
The meeting between Blanche and Maxwell led to concerns from some opponents of Trump, including Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, that Blanche may have offered Maxwell a favorable deal to ensure she would not mention Trump.[48] Dick Durbin, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, requested transcripts of Blanche's two-day meeting with Maxwell.[49] In August, the Department of Justice released transcripts of the interview, indicating that Maxwell affirmed the official narrative of the Epstein case, though she stated that she believed Epstein's death was a murder, not a suicide. Maxwell additionally stated that she had not seen Trump "in any inappropriate setting in any way."[50] Blanche defended Maxwell's transfer to a minimum security prison a week after his meeting, claiming Maxwell had experienced "numerous threats against her life."[51]
In July 2025, Bloomberg Law reported that Chris Kise, who represented Trump alongside Blanche in the classified documents case, had appealed to Blanche to give leniency to former Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, arguing that Vázquez Garced was the victim of political prosecution. Blanche agreed and ordered prosecutors to strike a deal with Vázquez Garced's defense.[52] The following month, Bondi and Blanche conflicted with Ed Martin, the director of the Weaponization Working Group, over his stunt requesting that New York attorney general Letitia James resign and going to her residence to personally inspect her property.[53] Bondi and Blanche defended Erik Siebert, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, against claims that Siebert had not done enough to investigate James and James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation whom Trump had dismissed in May 2017 and the father of Maurene Comey. In particular, Blanche and Siebert questioned the validity of a criminal case against James as Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sought to have her indicted on allegations of mortgage fraud, according to The New York Times.[54]
After Trump appointed Todd Gilbert as the United States attorney for the Western District of Virginia in July, officials within the Department of Justice directed him to open an investigation into the handling of classified documents in the Mueller special counsel investigation. After Gilbert stated that he did not believe there was sufficient evidence for a grand jury indictment, aides to Bondi and Blanche accused Gilbert of consulting with Zachary Lee, whom they alleged was serving the interests of the prior Biden administration. Blanche spoke with Gilbert and encouraged him to pursue the case, offering additional resources.[55] That month, Blanche threatened to prosecute officials in California who arrest federal officers conducting immigration enforcement in sanctuary jurisdictions.[56] Additionally, after Trump appointed Lindsey Halligan to prosecute James in October, neither Bondi nor Blanche were informed of James's indictment in advance.[57] Blanche oversaw the grand conspiracy investigation, led by U.S. attorney for the District of Southern Florida Jason Reding Quiñones.[58] At the Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2026, Blanche said he did not understand objections to deploying ICE officers to polling places for the 2026 midterm elections, stating: "Why is there objection to sending ICE officers to polling places?"[59] Federal law generally prohibits the deployment of armed federal law enforcement at polling places.[60]
In January 2026, following the killing of Renée Good in Minneapolis, Blanche—who oversaw the Federal Bureau of Investigation—stated that the bureau would "ensure that evidence is collected and preserved".[61] He asserted that a civil rights investigation did not have to be conducted into Good's death,[62] actively resisting efforts to open an inquiry;[63] stated that an "insurrection" had occurred in the state over opposition to Operation Metro Surge, repeating Trump's claims suggesting that the Insurrection Act could be invoked;[64] and accused Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey of committing "terrorism".[65] After the killing of Alex Pretti that month, Blanche defended the agents who shot Pretti, but sought a tempered response to the ambiguity surrounding a bystander video.[66]
On May 12, 2025, after dismissing Carla Hayden as the librarian of Congress, Donald Trump appointed Blanche to succeed her.[67] The appointment led to a standoff at the James Madison Memorial Building, when two officials at the Department of Justice sought access to the Copyright Office, claiming that Blanche was the acting librarian of Congress. Staff members at the Library of Congress called Capitol Police and Meg Williams, the library's general counsel; Williams informed the officials that the library recognized Robert Newlen, the principal deputy librarian, as the acting librarian of Congress and that they were not permitted to enter.[68]
On April 2, 2026, Blanche became the acting attorney general after Trump fired Pam Bondi, allegedly over her handling of the Epstein files.[69]
The legality of Blanche's appointment and tenure as the acting librarian of Congress is disputed. The staff of the Library of Congress have asserted that Robert Newlen, the library's principal deputy librarian, is the acting librarian.
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