In the early morning hours of Saturday, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as the 88th Attorney General of the United States. Even Hollywood producers would turn down this story as a script. A paralegal at the Justice Department who worked his way through law school at night now leads that same agency. Blanche shows what standing up for principles and against smears brings: rich rewards.

Before the public ever heard of him, Blanche had amassed a distinguished resume. He clerked for two federal judges in the Southern District of New York, one of the premier clerkship destinations in the nation. Both wound up serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: Judge Denny Chin, appointed by President Barack Obama, and Judge Joseph Bianco, appointed by President Donald Trump. These two judges, at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, recognized early how special a lawyer Blanche would be. After a brief stint in private practice, Blanche returned to public service as a federal prosecutor in New York, spending approximately a decade prosecuting drug dealers, murderers, gangsters, corrupt cops, and other criminals unfit for society.

Blanche then hit the legal jackpot: a partnership at the megafirm then known as Cadwalader. He had it made in the shade, decades of million-dollar checks ahead. His family would enjoy financial security for generations. He then surrendered it all and put everything on the line to stop an injustice: the persecution in the form of lawfare against President Trump. Thanks to the brilliance of Blanche and other stars such as now-Solicitor General John Sauer and Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove, leftist prosecutors from Jack Smith to........

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