1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

Vote no on Todd Blanche's confirmation as Attorney General. The evidence that he cut a corrupt deal with Ghislaine Maxwell — a convicted child sex trafficker — to secure her preferential prison placement is damning and demands accountability before he receives any more power. After Blanche visited Maxwell at FCI Tallahassee for nine hours over two days in July 2025, she was transferred to FPC Bryan, Texas — a minimum-security camp with no perimeter fencing. Bureau of Prisons regulations explicitly prohibit housing sex offenders in camps. Maxwell is the only sex offender among roughly 20,000 in BOP custody placed in one. BOP's claim that this was an independent safety decision is a lie — Blanche himself said "every decision that they [BOP] make lands on my desk." The standard response to inmate safety threats is a Special Housing Unit, not a transfer to the least secure prison type in the federal system. Then on May 6, 2026, BOP Director William Marshall signed Change Notice CN-3, amending the designation policy to let the Attorney General personally direct prisoner placements — a rule change with no historical precedent, apparently designed to legitimize exactly what Blanche already did. The Senate Judiciary Committee should demand Maxwell's security designation forms, PSF waiver documentation, and threat assessment records before this confirmation moves one step further. Confirming Blanche rewards corruption and puts a convicted child sex trafficker's benefactor in charge of the entire Justice Department.