Vote No on Todd Blanche's Attorney General Confirmation

Vote no on Todd Blanche's confirmation as Attorney General. He is not a neutral law enforcement officer — he was Trump's personal defense attorney before joining the DOJ, and a coalition of 101 former federal and state judges just filed a 73-page ethics complaint against him with the New York State Bar. The charges include professional misconduct tied to a nearly $2 billion IRS slush fund and the abuse of DOJ powers to target political opponents. This is not a close call. A federal judge in Florida already ruled that Trump used her courtroom to "provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers." More than 1,000 former DOJ employees signed a letter calling Blanche's tenure marked by corruption and abuses. Senators Cassidy and Booker filed a joint brief opposing the settlement fund. The evidence against this nomination is overwhelming and bipartisan. The Senate Judiciary Committee has the power to stop this. The rubber-stamping of corrupt and unfit nominees has to end somewhere — this is that moment. Vote no.