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Today — 3 April 2026Main stream

Who Is Todd Blanche, Trump’s Acting Attorney General?

3 April 2026 at 04:34
While it remains unclear how long Todd Blanche will stay in the job, whoever ends up taking over permanently will lead a department that he has shaped in his own image.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Todd Blanche with Pam Bondi. Mr. Blanche has enabled the wholesale politicization of the Justice Department, but also held off some of the president’s most impulsive efforts to open criminal cases unsupported by the evidence.

Who Is Todd Blanche, Trump’s Interim Attorney General?

3 April 2026 at 03:57
While it remains unclear how long Todd Blanche will stay in the job, whoever ends up taking over permanently will lead a department that he has shaped in his own image.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Todd Blanche with Pam Bondi. Mr. Blanche has enabled the wholesale politicization of the Justice Department, but also held off some of the president’s most impulsive efforts to open criminal cases unsupported by the evidence.

Part Enabler, Part Buffer: The Bind of the Justice Dept.’s No. 2

15 October 2025 at 04:45
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, has helped usher in President Trump’s retribution campaign. But he faces anger on the right for resisting some of the most extreme measures.

© Pete Marovich for The New York Times

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, has been willing to blur the line between public servant and personal lawyer for President Trump.
Yesterday — 2 April 2026Main stream

Pipe Bomb Defendant Says He May Adopt Debunked Account as Defense

2 April 2026 at 04:31
Court papers show that Brian Cole Jr.’s lawyers might seek to blame a former Capitol Police officer whose name first surfaced in a right-wing media account and whom the F.B.I. briefly investigated.

© Federal Bureau of Investigation

Surveillance footage from January 2021 showed the man authorities identified as Brian Cole Jr.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Justice Dept. Struggles to Respond to Trump’s Suit Against IRS

Officials at the department and the White House are in the middle of a messy and complicated debate over how to respond to President Trump’s lawsuit demanding $10 billion from the I.R.S.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

President Trump filed a lawsuit demanding at least $10 billion from the I.R.S.
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