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. Kathy Hochul, but in doing so, came at odds with a 1939 U.S. federal law.

“A violation of the Hatch Act, if anyone believes the Attorney General should follow the law,” Vance wrote in an analysis published Saturday on her Substack, Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance.

“One of the Act’s major prohibitions is against using a federal job to influence an election. Although federal employees can, technically, campaign on their own time, the Attorney General is on the clock 24/7. Presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed officials like Blanche can only participate in partisan political activity in a purely personal (not official) capacity.”

At the rally, Blanche touted his leadership at the Justice Department – an agency he referred to as “his” – boasting about his vow to prosecute those who touch federal law enforcement officers “in any way inappropriate” to “the fullest extent of the law.”

“If only he felt that way about Jeffrey Epstein’s victims,” Vance quipped, referencing the DOJ’s failure to prosecute a single person associated with Epstein.

What Vance characterized as a blatant violation of U.S. law demonstrated, she argued, was the rules he and other Trump administration Justice Department officials operated under: “Trump rules, not the rule of law.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), 92, published yet another online post Saturday complaining about vacuum cleaners, only this time sparking right-wing backlash in the process.

For years, Grassley has spoken at length about “Beth” – a vintage Hoover vacuum cleaner that had been used by his family for close to 50 years before it broke earlier this month, leading the Iowa Republican to issue a bizarre eulogy for the household appliance. More than a week later on Saturday, Grassley expressed his disappointment that his 1966 Electrolux Corporation canister vacuum cleaner was “also broken.”

Billy Ray Todd, a former Republican Alabama state House candidate with a large online following, criticized Grassley for airing his vacuum cleaner-related grievances, arguing that the 92-year-old senator should instead “be in DC passing the SAVE Act,” President Donald Trump’s controversial voter ID bill.

Joe Dan Gorman, a conservative commentator and comedian, argued Grassley’s online post demonstrated either an “enormous detachment from reality or a giant middle finger,” suggesting the 92-year-old should instead be calling for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to “step down.”

And Chris Nelson, who Yahoo! News described as an independent conservative journalist, used Grassley’s post to highlight the senator’s impressive age.

“This guy is pushing 100 years old and still in the Senate,” Nelson wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “He’s not even a boomer. He’s silent generation. His kids are boomers.”

Born in 1933, Grassley is the oldest sitting U.S. senator and the sixth-longest-serving senator in American history, having first won elected office in 1958 during the Eisenhower administration. He has represented Iowa in the Senate since 1981 and is currently the chamber's president pro tempore, putting him third in the presidential line of succession behind Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Vice President JD Vance’s hometown of Middletown, Ohio has shown a notably muted response to the vice president’s new memoir, The Guardian reported Saturday.

Published in June and titled “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” the book details Vance’s journey in rediscovering his Catholic faith, and was released to brutal reviews from both professional and amateur critics alike. In Vance’s hometown, however, it appears to have left less than a lasting impression.

“I haven’t read or even seen a copy of Communion … So far, I haven’t found anyone who has read it,” said a Catholic priest who served in Middletown for decades, speaking with The Guardian on the condition of anonymity. “Some [residents] have read the reviews. People obviously have their opinions on JD.”

Middletown City Council member Joe Mulligan told The Guardian that he hadn’t read the memoir – though planned to “soon” – and that there were no current plans for the city to celebrate or acknowledge the publication of the book. The Guardian also reported that there was “no sign” of the memoir inside the Middletown library building.

A dive bar called Carol’s Speakeasy is mentioned in the memoir – apparently a hot spot for a college-aged Vance – and The Guardian attempted to contact its owners.

“But a manager who answered the phone recently said they hadn’t read the book, didn’t intend to read it, nor was aware that the bar was mentioned in Communion,” the Guardian’s report reads.

Furthermore, The Guardian noted the unease with which local residents spoke about their opinions on Vance.

“Among Middletown’s general public, the vice-president’s new book hasn’t exactly hit home, and on the city’s streets many residents are uneasy about sharing their opinion on Vance or his writings,” The Guardian’s report reads.