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MS NOW- DOJ alums urge Senate not to approve Blanche as attorney general
More than 1,200 former DOJ employees urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Blanche’s nomination ahead of his confirmation hearing this month.
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More than 1,200 Justice Department alums urged the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter released Tuesday to reject Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve as the country’s top federal prosecutor.
The Justice Connection, a network of fired DOJ employees created to support the department’s career prosecutors who they say have been targeted by the Trump administration, released the letter one week before the kickoff of Blanche’s highly anticipated two-day confirmation hearing before the Senate panel.
“Regardless of how we joined the department, every one of us took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not the occupant of the White House,” the former prosecutors wrote in the letter addressed to Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
“That oath now compels us to speak out against the nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General — someone who took the same oath, but has utterly failed to abide by it,” the letter said.....
Blanche’s degradation of the DOJ’s apolitical career workforce was another point of concern in the letter.
“The culture of fear Blanche has instilled within DOJ’s workforce must end,” the letter said. “Respect for career professionals must return … 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.’
The Justice Connection, a network of fired DOJ employees created to support the department’s career prosecutors who they say have been targeted by the Trump administration, released the letter one week before the kickoff of Blanche’s highly anticipated two-day confirmation hearing before the Senate panel.
“Regardless of how we joined the department, every one of us took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not the occupant of the White House,” the former prosecutors wrote in the letter addressed to Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
“That oath now compels us to speak out against the nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General — someone who took the same oath, but has utterly failed to abide by it,” the letter said.....
Blanche’s degradation of the DOJ’s apolitical career workforce was another point of concern in the letter.
“The culture of fear Blanche has instilled within DOJ’s workforce must end,” the letter said. “Respect for career professionals must return … 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.’
Confirming Blanche as Attorney General will destroy the Department of Justice.