The acting attorney general could continue running DOJ for much of the year even without Trump’s nomination.

Senate Democrats’ desire to hold acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s feet to the fire over the Jeffrey Epstein files and his reasoning behind his sympathetic treatment of Ghislaine Maxwell, could be waylaid by a legal loophole.

The following is the transcript of the interview with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on April 26, 2026.

“You just said he traveled from California across the country by train. At this point, are you thinking at the federal level of changing security protocols in any way" The post Brennan Presses Todd Blanche On If Gun Law Failures Contributed to WHCD Shooting first appeared on Mediaite.

Acting attorney general Todd Blanche said Sunday he did not view the shooting Saturday at the White House correspondents’ dinner as a security failure, saying “the system worked” as it should. Blanche,

The Southern Poverty Law Center was federally indicted on fraud charges, accused of funneling millions to paid informants in extremist organizations.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order on Thursday officially reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana from a Schedule I to a less-regulated Schedule III drug, following President Donald Trump’s order to do so in December.

Acting AG Todd Blanche says the D.C. shooting suspect appears to have traveled by train from Los Angeles to Washington as the investigation develops.