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Senate Should Ignore National Review’s Never-Trump Droning And Confirm Todd Blanche As AG

What National Review really objects to is not Todd Blanche’s extensive experience but a member of his client list: President Donald Trump.

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Conservatives spent the better part of a decade learning a hard lesson about the United States Department of Justice: that bad actors could take the storied institution and abuse its powers. We watched it happen in real time. So it is strange, now that a man with a serious plan to fix the place sits before the Senate, to see National Review’s editors counsel “No to Todd Blanche for Attorney General.”

Looking back, there was no editorial called “No to Merrick Garland.” The editors’ case against Blanche focuses too much on narrow disagreements and not enough on broad, structural successes.

And National Review appears to be part of a trend, as its editorial is now joined by a similarly titled “Todd Blanche Is Unfit for Office” by The New York Times’ editorial board. The Times at least handwaves at President Trump’s “right to select an attorney general who shares his policy views” before explaining why this time is different. The focus is on Blanche’s perceived lack of independence — an issue the Times did not seem to focus on when then-Attorney General Eric Holder “referred to himself as” President Obama’s “wingman.” Department of Justice independence for me but not for thee.

I have had the privilege of spending the last three years working both in opposition to and with the Department of Justice. State attorneys general and their lawyers see the federal government from a vantage point that National Review’s editorial board does not occupy. We litigate with Main Justice, against it, and often in parallel. We feel the practical consequences of who runs that building. And from where I sit, the DOJ under Todd........

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