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AG Nominee Blanche: Trump’s DOJ Believes Biden’s Lax Abortion Pill Rules Are Wrong

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Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche told U.S. senators during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s Department of Justice believes the Biden administration’s radically relaxed rules for obtaining abortion pills “were wrong.”

In his exchange with Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Blanche explained that the DOJ is “not defending what Biden did, and will not,” when it stripped the safety regulations from mifepristone following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision.

“We want to get to a good result consistent with President Trump’s administrative directive and priorities,” Blanche claimed.

Blanche repeatedly refused to discuss the DOJ’s “litigation strategy” in the ongoing landmark Louisiana v. FDA case because “it’s not appropriate.” Instead, the nominee pledged the DOJ and the Trump administration as a whole to “protect the life of the unborn and work with states and obviously [Hawley] to make sure that we do that in the best way.”

According to Blanche, that pledge to protect extends to defending the abortion pill safety guidelines, which included an in-person........

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