Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ToddBlanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToddBlanche</span></a>, Trump’s nom for the No. 2 job at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> & another one if his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> defense attys, decried at his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/confirmation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>confirmation</span></a> hearing what he called “partisan lawfare” waged against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>.</p><p>Blanche’s opening statement was an attack on the cases against Trump. “Politics should never play a role in the Department of Justice, but recently, in too many circumstances, it has,” he said [ –he’s right, just not in the way that he thinks.]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cronyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cronyism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>