{"id":3580,"date":"2026-08-18T02:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:56","slug":"senate-must-block-corrupt-toadying-vengeful-todd-blanche-after-committee-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3580","title":{"rendered":"Senate Must Block \u2018Corrupt, Toadying, Vengeful\u2019 Todd Blanche After Committee Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, in a partisan split, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination for Attorney General on Tuesday, setting the stage for a floor vote to confirm him to the post.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <strong>Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a single barrier left to the confirmation of Trump crony Todd Blanche: the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenators must urgently do the right thing and block Blanche. The consequences of inaction here are crystal clear. If we make Todd Blanche America\u2019s lawyer at the head of the Justice Department, we are accepting a man who has been tasked with implementing Donald Trump\u2019s revenge agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man placed by Trump in this role only because the previous head of the DOJ wasn\u2019t implementing his corrupt personal prosecutions fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man who rubberstamped the corrupt IRS deal that Trump made with himself to shield all the Trumps and their businesses, not only from enforcement of any taxes they may have dodged or any fines or payments they may owe to American taxpayers, but from \u2018any and all\u2019 related consequences for violating any federal criminal or civil law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man who led the Epstein cover-up. Who was dismissive and negligent toward trafficking victims despite the nation\u2019s intense outrage at Epstein\u2019s crimes and in the face of these women\u2019s ongoing advocacy to make clear how his horrific actions have impacted their lives. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t stop there., A vote for Blanche is also literally a blank check to give money to January 6th insurrectionists or other cronies, whether through a revived slush fund or directly from the Judgement Fund. We have seen him act in this manner as recently as last week, when he facilitated a 7-figure settlement for a pardoned abortion clinic protester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know exactly what type of Attorney General Mr. Blanche will be: Corrupt, toadying, and focused on one goal: defense of Donald J. Trump. It is a matter of morality, Senators of both parties must stand in his way and block his confirmation on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in a partisan split, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination for Attorney General on Tuesday, setting the stage for a floor vote to confirm him to the post. In response, Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement: \u201cThere is a single barrier left to the confirmation of Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}