My latest post-Trump prosecution wish: Todd Blanche

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https://www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche-trump-roadblocks/

[Ocelot II]

1. I've been wondering what Blanche is getting out of his job besides his government salary.

As AG he'd be high up on the government pay scale - it's a Level I executive position for which the salary was $250,600 as of January 2025. Not bad, but peanuts compared to what he was making in private practice - he'd been a partner at the white-shoe firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft until he left to represent Trump. Cadwalader's equity partners typically make about $3M per year. He earned $10M representing Trump in his criminal trial, and was paid by Trump's PAC. So I have to wonder whether Trump or the PAC is paying him under the table.

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2. MaddowBlog-Being Trump's attorney general is an awful job. Todd Blanche apparently doesn't care.

Blanche has made it clear that he doesn’t want to be the American people’s attorney general; he wants to be Trump’s attorney general.

Trump has clashed with so many AGs (Bondi, Barr, Sessions, Yates). Why is Blanche different? They agree on what an AG should be: part puppet, part weapon, and part cheerleader.

Blanche doesn’t want to be our attorney general; he wants to be Trump’s attorney general. Those are 2 very different jobs.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-09T17:40:46.759Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-attorney-general-awful-job-blanche

Trump likely believes he’ll have better luck with his latest choice. MS NOW reported:

President Donald Trump on Monday formally nominated his longtime loyalist and former personal defense lawyer Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general permanently.

Blanche has been serving as the nation’s top prosecutor in an acting capacity after Pam Bondi was fired by Trump in April. Blanche was Bondi’s deputy at the time. The nomination has been sent to the Senate.

Since becoming the acting attorney general, Blanche went to almost cartoonish lengths to use his office in ways designed to please the White House, up to and including indicting people the president doesn’t like. Trump, not surprisingly, was delighted. Whether senators are equally impressed remains to be seen, though there’s no reason to assume that his confirmation will be easy.

Stepping back, however, there’s the related question of why Blanche actually wants this job.....

The president, in other words, expects an attorney general who’s part puppet, part weapon and part cheerleader. Those serious about the rule of law and apolitical ethical limits need not apply.

I’ve seen some analyses that have described the office under Trump as “an impossible job,” largely because no one can be quite pathetic enough to satiate all of the president’s whims and demands. It’s a fair point, to be sure, but that’s what makes Blanche’s nomination inherently interesting: He, unlike guys such as Sessions and Barr, doesn’t actually want to lead the DOJ or oversee federal law enforcement; Blanche simply wants to serve Trump.

In other words, Blanche might very well be the first and only attorney general Trump actually gets along with because he and the president share a common view of the office. By tradition, those in this role strive to be “the people’s lawyer.” The president’s new nominee has no such ambitions: His goal is to serve one American, not 340 million Americans.

Blanche has made it abundantly clear that he doesn’t want to be the American people’s attorney general; he wants to be Trump’s attorney general. Is it any wonder why the president is optimistic about his choice?

I believe that Blanche will be disbarred. Blanche and the DOJ want to strip State Bar Associations of jurisdiction of trump stooges. That is not going to work