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

Acting attorney general Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., are expected to provide an update this afternoon on the investigation into the Saturday attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

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.

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,

On Monday, former MSNBC host Katie Phang filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking the court to compel acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to release the entire Jeffrey Epstein files.

The Justice Department is pursuing an aggressive effort to strip U.S. citizenship from individuals accused of obtaining it through fraud, marking what officials describe as a historic escalation under the Trump administration’s acting attorney general,

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.