Todd Blanche: From Trump’s Defense Lawyer to Acting AG

Todd Blanche official portrait as 40th U.S. Deputy Attorney General, photographed at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C., 2025

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 …

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