{"id":4856,"date":"2026-07-24T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:39:47","slug":"gag-reflex-respected-conservative-takes-public-stand-against-todd-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4856","title":{"rendered":"‘Gag reflex’: Respected conservative takes public stand against Todd Blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were put on notice on Friday by a highly respected conservative that even the thought of appointing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the post should make them sick. <\/p>\n

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Washington Post columnist George Will argued Friday that Republicans owe no favors to President Donald Trump as he tries to foist his compromised former personal lawyer on the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many sufficient reasons to oppose confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general,” wrote Will. “Presidents generally are owed some deference in selecting Cabinet members, but \u2018some\u2019 implies limits, lest the Senate\u2019s advice-and-consent duty be drained of responsibility. And not all presidents are equally owed. Today\u2019s president is owed little, given his contempt for the unwritten rules of civility that can lubricate a congenial society\u2019s governance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having dismissed the president, Will set about making his case against Blanche by citing multiple Trump appointees who were passed through the divided Senate only to be found lacking in all ways for their jobs.<\/p>\n

Will first called out former Attorney General Pam Bondi \u2014 ousted over her handling of the Epstein files \u2014 and a slew of others, as incompetents. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIf at most four Republican senators had, in committee or floor votes, behaved as independently as the Founders thought senators would,” Will wrote, “Bondi, Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others would not have been confirmed to offices far above their competences.”<\/p>\n

Then he honed in on Blanche<\/p>\n

\u201cBlanche was acting attorney general when the Justice Department took seriously Seashellgate,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cBlanche, who serves at the pleasure of the president, signed a memo pledging that the IRS is \u2018Forever Barred\u2019 from \u2018examinations\u2019 of Trump, certain members of his family, the Trump Organization and \u2018related or affiliated individuals.\u2019 This \u2018negotiated\u2019 \u2014 try not to snicker \u2014 settlement between the president and the executive branch he heads exemplifies the administration\u2019s sludge of self-dealing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noting that Blanche received an \u201cembarrassingly backhanded endorsement\u201d from former attorney general William Barr who claimed Trump\u2019s latest appointee \u201cwill run the department as effectively as anyone could under President Trump,\u201d Will asked, \u201cIs this sufficient reassurance for Republican senators? Or will, at last, a nominee trigger their gag reflexes?\u201d<\/p>\n

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