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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

More than 1,200 former Department of Justice (DOJ) employees encouraged the Senate to reject acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination to take on the role permanently, writing in a Tuesday letter that he has been "demonizing career employees."

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"In the coming weeks, many will rightly underscore the corruption and abuses that have defined the Justice Department under Todd Blanche's leadership:

the vindictive prosecutions and investigations of the President's foes; the deals designed to reward lawbreakers with taxpayer dollars; the erasure of accountability for January 6; the mishandling of the Epstein files; and the denigration of judges and repeated violations of their orders," the former employees wrote in a letter organized by Justice Connection, a DOJ alumni group.

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"But we want to focus on an area that deserves just as much attention: Todd Blanche's degradation of DOJ's apolitical career workforce."

"Blanche has fired or overseen the firings of hundreds of these employees " usually without notice, and for improper, unlawful reasons.

Some were terminated for having worked on cases the President didn't like; for being relatives of the President's foes; for adjudicating immigration cases in accordance with due process; for declining to initiate vindictive prosecutions; or for refusing to lie in court.

These terminations violate the very civil service statutes designed to prevent corruption and political purges," the letter states."

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""The culture of fear Blanche has instilled within DOJ's workforce must end. Respect for career professionals must return. Would-be job applicants need to believe the Justice Department lives up to the virtue in its name," they wrote.

"And instead of exhibiting fealty to the president, the Attorney General must heed John Adams' admonition that our republic remains a government of laws, not of men.'"

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DJT never got over his handpicked loyalist DOJ refusing to illegally steal the 2020 Election for him, and testifying under Oath about that to Congress.

He's not going to let that happen again.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-07 12:49 PM | Reply

In any other age but that brought to us by fascist mafioso Trump, this is a no-brainer.

Blanche is an weasel, singing the Horst Weasel song.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-07 12:49 PM | Reply

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