The GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee should be a friendly place for President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, but Todd Blanche may be about to enter a minefield.
Democrats are promising to make Blanche’s Wednesday confirmation hearing an indictment of his record as Trump’s former personal lawyer — and, more recently, as the face of the haphazard rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the thwarted launch of a $1.8 billion fund to pay out “victims” of “lawfare” that critics called a slush fund benefitting Trump’s allies.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the top Senate Judiciary Democrat, accused Blanche of “aiding and abetting the…
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