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MIKE DAVIS: Why Senate must ignore Obama judge's attack on AG nominee Todd Blanche

Judge Kathleen Williams issued the sanctions order two days before Blanche's confirmation hearing

By Mike Davis Fox News

Published July 14, 2026 9:36am EDT

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Todd Blanche, President Trump’s acting attorney general, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday for a nomination hearing that will help decide whether he gets the permanent job. Blanche is unquestionably qualified to serve as the next attorney general of the United States. Indeed, the Senate confirmed Blanche as the deputy attorney general – the Justice Department’s No. 2, with almost all powers of the attorney general – nearly 16 months ago. And Blanche has already served as the acting attorney general for many months. Blanche, a former New York federal prosecutor, white-shoe law partner, and senior Justice Department official, is the right man for the job. His experience fighting (and beating) the Biden lawfare against Trump as his private attorney makes Blanche uniquely qualified to bring much-needed accountability and reforms to the Justice Department to ensure the Democrats’ unprecedented, republic-ending lawfare is never repeated. Blanche is on a glidepath to Senate confirmation as America’s next attorney general.

So naturally, Democrat operatives are getting desperate. In a last-minute judicial drive-by attack, former federal public defender-turned Obama-appointed Judge Kathleen Williams blasted out an unprecedented, lawless order Monday in which she baselessly referred Blanche for bar discipline. Her timing is obviously political. Williams sat on it for weeks, only to issue her ruling two days before Blanche is set to........

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