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The man behind Trump's personal revenge machine should not be confirmed
The Justice Department Has Been PrivatizedPower, Not ProcedureTodd Blanche is not being described here as a conventional attorney general-in-waiting. He is being described as a loyalist who treats the Justice Department as an extension of Donald Trump’s personal will. That is the central fact. The rest is administrative camouflage: hearings, titles, and legal language used to obscure a simple transfer of institutional power from the public to one man’s grievance machine.The source article is doing useful work by listing concrete acts, not abstract concerns. That matters because this is not a…
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