Todd Blanche: From Trump’s Defense Lawyer to Acting AG
Three years ago, Todd Blanche was a private defense attorney who had just resigned his law firm partnership to represent a criminal defendant. Today, he runs the United States Department of Justice. The speed of that transition — from courtroom advocate for the accused to chief federal prosecutor for the nation — has no clean parallel in modern DOJ history. This article draws on court records, federal confirmation proceedings, contemporaneous news reporting from PBS NewsHour and the Associated Press, and Blanche’s own …