Blanche Speaks At Rally For MAGA NY Gov Candidate

Todd Blanche’s New York stunt leaves legal expert ‘deeply disgusted’

Within a week of his confirmation, Attorney General Todd Blanche took to New York to stump for an ally of President Donald Trump’s, an act that legal expert and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance flagged Saturday as a blatant violation of U.S. law, and as something that left her “deeply disgusted."Blanche spoke at a Trump rally Friday in support of Bruce Blakeman, a GOP gubernatorial candidate in New York hoping to defeat incumbent Democratic Gov.…

Blanche Speaks At Rally For MAGA NY Gov Candidate

Democracy Docket reports: Less than a week after Senate Republicans confirmed him as U.S. attorney general, Todd Blanche spoke at a political rally and appeared to endorse a Republican candidate for New York governor — a move that further politicizes the country’s top law enforcement role. The attorney general’s comments mark another break from the DOJ’s longstanding norms that the attorney general maintains strict neutrality and avoids partisan…