By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
Washington (AP) – The Senate led by the Republicans voted on Wednesday to confirm Todd Blanche as a deputy prosecutor general, placing the former criminal defense lawyer of President Donald Trump in a key position of the Ministry of Justice at a time of turbulence of the agency.
Blanche, who barely defended Trump on the accusation acts brought by the department, will be the second under the prosecutor General Pam Bondi, another close ally of Trump. It was confirmed during a vote of 52-46.
Blanche is between the upheavals of the dismissals, resignations and forced transfers of career officials in the thrust of the Trump administration to serve the employee agency considered to be unfair towards the president’s agenda.
During his confirmation hearing, Blanche sought to assume the Democrats that politics would play no role in its decisions as a general by-procurer. Blanche said that Trump’s Ministry of Justice will endeavor to restore the “American people’s faith in our judicial system” after what he described as a “partisan law” targeting the president.
Blanche is a former federal prosecutor who was a key figure in Trump’s defense team, both in the two criminal cases brought by the Ministry of Justice and the New York Monetary Affair, which ended with a conviction of 34 counts.
Special lawyer Jack Smith defended the cases he brought to accusing Trump to have plotted to overthrow his electoral loss in 2020 and the hoarding of classified documents in his field Mar-A-Lago in Florida. These two cases were withdrawn after Trump’s presidential victory in November due to the long -standing policy of the Ministry of Justice prohibiting the federal proceedings of an in office.
Emil Bove, another former Trump’s defense lawyer who acted as the commander commander of the Ministry of Justice, while Blanche was waiting for confirmation, will have now become the main associate assistant prosecutor.
Bove shaken the department with actions in its first weeks, in particular by demanding the names of thousands of FBI agents who participated in the investigation into the attack on January 6 and ordering the rejection of the corruption case of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
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