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Todd Blanche refused to file pledge judge demanded
When Executive Power Refuses to Swear Under OathThe People With PowerThe central fact here is not confusion. It is refusal. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, backed by the Trump administration and echoed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, did not do what Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ordered: submit a sworn declaration, under penalty of perjury, saying the administration would not move forward with Trump’s slush fund.That matters because power sits with the executive branch. It controls the machinery, the lawyers, the money, and the decision to…
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