These evil deeds damaged the department, but they were furtive and ended in disgrace. None of these men served up his conduct as a model for the DOJ to follow. Blanche, by contrast, has openly taken a blowtorch to standards that have been articles of faith at the department for 50 years. Puffed up with his Senate confirmation, President Trump’s former personal lawyer has taken on a renewed cockiness—arrogance, really—and proclaimed his and Trump’s perverted view of the attorney general as the new normal.
1. Asked by Kristen Welker on Meet the Press whether he could pledge that the Justice Department would always act independently of the White House, Blanche was combative: “No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”
Jeff Sessions, Trump’s very first attorney general, swore that the department’s actions “will not be improperly influenced by political considerations,” and that it “can never be used to retaliate politically against opponents.” Michael Mukasey, the conservative Republican AG brought in by President George W. Bush in 2007 to clean up the U.S. attorney firing scandals, told the Senate that staff who discussed cases with political actors would be fired. Merrick Garland put the principle most concisely at his own confirmation hearing in 2021: “I’m not the president’s lawyer. I am the United States’s lawyer.”
2. Days after being sworn in, Blanche stood at the Nassau County Police Academy, flanked by uniformed officers, and warmed up a crowd for Bruce Blakeman, Trump’s endorsed candidate for governor of New York, praising him for doing “everything we need him to do.” No attorney general in at least 100 years has appeared at a political rally for a candidate; I suspect none would even have entertained the idea. The conduct can only undermine public confidence in the Department’s impartiality.
3. On Thursday, August 13, Blanche delivered a cynical speech to DOJ staff in the Great Hall of Main Justice. He served up empty pieties, most remarkably his assurance that the department would uphold the law “without fear or favor”—the best capsule description of its mission as there is.
4. On Fox News Sunday, after a district court and court of appeals both ordered a halt to construction of the president’s ballroom for failure to obtain congressional approval, Blanche waved away the ruling: “We don’t believe we have to go to Congress. We believe Congress has already given us the authority to do what we’re doing.” It’s not the attorney general’s role to dismiss binding court orders, on television no less.
What a whopper, from the lips of the chief federal law-enforcement officer in the land. Appearances at political rallies are unethical; reprisal prosecutions are illegal; and there’s plenty more Blanche has done in each category. Trump has insisted on bringing cases against his enemies, and Blanche has championed his supposed authority to do so.
Blanche’s blithe assurance is a classic authoritarian move, one we have seen from Trump himself repeatedly over the last 20 months: Don’t merely lie; proclaim the exact opposite of the truth, and stand your ground shamelessly.
A. Mitchell Palmer and Harry Daugherty damaged the DOJ by what they did, but none tried to change what it was. Blanche is attacking the institution at its foundations in broad daylight, sawing away at its core principles and rewriting its basic mission. That is why his first week belongs in a shameful category of its own.
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