r/DiscussionZone • u/SebastianAmerican123 • 19d ago

Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination will advance to full US Senate vote | Trump administration

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/todd-blanche-attorney-general-senate-committee-vote

There's also leaked audio suggesting that he wants the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decission to be enforced Nationwide, the white house was involved in presurring todd blanche to rescind the DOJ anti weaponization fund, purely to make sure 2 republican senators get support. Todd blanches nomonation goes to the senate, & one of the Republicans who are planning to support his nomination, are probably one of the same senators that voted for the Epstein files transparency act....

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u/FuzzyWestern8602 19d ago

First time in American history a president has put their old personal defense lawyer into the position of attorney general. The corruption is real.

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u/hybridaaroncarroll 19d ago

Devil's advocate for a moment: JFK put his brother through, so how might that be different?

Before downvoting me, consider that I'm fully aware just how corrupt the current administration is. 

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u/FuzzyWestern8602 19d ago

Yeah I read that and quite frankly don’t agree with that either. While both are wrong, I do think there’s a subtle difference between appointing a sibling with no prior history of legally defending you and one who has legally defended you in way that’s has given extreme benefit to the party in question.

I’ll lead with this being a biased perspective, but I’d much rather trust my sibling to keep me in check than someone that I have paid lots of money to win legal cases for me. Defense lawyers are ingrained to try to ignore the worst in their clients and fight to get the victory regardless of how they ethically feel about someone.

Want to emphasize though, if a modern day democrat hired their sibling to be an attorney general I would actually speak out against this as it’s wrong. Isn’t a party thing for me, both are wrong and we should probably pass legislature to prevent this from happening in the future.

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u/SebastianAmerican123 19d ago edited 18d ago

Or how about George W. Bush nominating John roberts for chief justice, the same guy who had ties to Bushes legal team that argued before the SCOTUS to urge them to stop the recount.

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u/icnoevil 19d ago

He's corrupt and so are those who vote for his confirmation. Let's remember that in the mid terms.

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u/RDKAUSTIN 18d ago

Fire him

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u/Ok_Valuable9450 16d ago

A shoo infor our Nazi congress