Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche will face senators Wednesday in a high-stakes confirmation hearing that will test Republican unity on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the first major nomination fight since the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham.
“My colleagues and I are working to fill Senator Grahams seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee before the Committee votes on Todd Blanches nomination next week,” Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn told Fox News Digital.
“I look forward to confirming Mr. Blanche as Attorney General so he can continue his great work to crack down on crime, eradicate the two tiers of justice, and wipe out fraud. Thats exactly what Lindsey wouldve wanted us to do to honor his legacy,” she added.
Republicans are navigating their first major nomination battle without Grahamâa former Judiciary Committee chairman whose courtroom-style questioning and command of confirmation fights made him one of the GOP’s most influential voices.
Blanche has been a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, first serving as his personal defense attorney before helping lead his criminal defense against cases Trump and his allies denounced as politically motivated.
He was appointed by Trump as Deputy Attorney General when the president returned to office before being tapped to fill former Attorney General Pam Bondis shoes.
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“When the Corrupt Biden Injustice Department and Radical Left Prosecutors tried to throw me in jail, and interfered in our Historic 2024 Presidential Campaign, Todd stood by my side and fought off the Lawfare,” Trump posted in part on Truth Social Tuesday.
Twenty conservative leaders penned a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, urging him to confirm Blanche, arguing that he has already proven he will “fight back.”
The letter, exclusively shared with Fox News Digital and spearheaded by the Article III Project, was signed by conservative legal figures including Article III Project founder Mike Davis, America First Legal Executive Director Gene Hamilton, John Eastman of the Claremont Institute, and others. The signers cited Blanches clerkships, his time as a federal prosecutor and his work in private practice.
“Blanche made a tremendous sacrifice, walking away from a massive salary as a partner at a premier law firm to defend President Trump when almost no one else would,” read the letter.
“He stood in the arena. Most importantly, he won. Blanche fought back against the most nakedly partisan prosecution in modern American
