All posts tagged "Todd Blanche"

Attorney General Todd Blanche's Justice Department keeps stiffing a federal judge over the Epstein files, and a legal expert sees where the road ends.

Lawyer and analyst Michael Popok said in Saturday's episode of his podcast "The Intersection" that the DOJ is "moving ever so inexorably towards contempt" in Katie Phang's lawsuit against Blanche after the department blew yet another court deadline.

"I'm waiting any moment now for...a very unhappy Judge Sullivan to throw the book again at the Department of Justice," Popok said, referring to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who's presiding over the case....

Attorney General Todd Blanche looks anxious pushing President Donald Trump's revenge investigation that has little to do with justice, an analyst wrote.

In a Saturday piece for her emptywheel blog, legal analyst Marcy Wheeler argued that Blanche is steering the so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation to protect his own position, pointing to his "flopsweat efforts to deliver on Trump's demands for revenge."

Wheeler built her argument around a New York Times report on the turmoil inside the probe, including a bitter clash between Blanche and Joe diGenova, the veteran Republican lawyer who quit the investigation amid the dispute....

Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing fresh scrutiny over his handling of FBI records involving a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexual abuse as a federal judge presses for answers in a lawsuit over the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Legal analyst Katie Phang, who brought the lawsuit, revealed Friday that U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan had issued another order addressing Blanche’s compliance with demands to produce records.

“Brand new update in my lawsuit against Attorney General Todd Blanche for the production of the unredacted Epstein files, hot off the presses,” Phang said. “An order from Judge Sullivan relating to these last few episodes I’ve been doing here at Katy Phang News about the failure of Todd Blanche to actually comply."...

A legal expert suing the Justice Department argues Todd Blanche's latest court submission points to evidence that quietly vanished.

Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang, who is suing Attorney General Todd Blanche for unredacted Epstein records, said in a Thursday episode for the "Katie Phang News" channel that the FBI's handwritten notes from the last of four 2019 interviews with a woman who alleges Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump sexually assaulted her as a teenager have never surfaced and that Blanche's recent notice of compliance does not explain why. Trump has denied wrongdoing related to Epstein.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Blanche on September 16 to submit for private review the notes underlying FBI reports from interviews conducted July 24, August 7, August 20 and October 16, 2019....

Attorney General Todd Blanche's new word for handwritten notes on an accuser of President Donald Trump in the Epstein files is raising red flags.

Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang, a former prosecutor suing Blanche for the unredacted Epstein files, picked apart the Justice Department's latest court filing in a video posted Tuesday on her YouTube channel, "Katie Phang News."

At issue are handwritten notes from four FBI interviews with a woman who alleged Trump sexually assaulted and physically abused her when she was between 13 and 15 years old. Trump has long denied wrongdoing tied to Epstein....

Attorney General Todd Blanche's Justice Department undermined its own misconduct complaint against a slew of outspoken federal judges, legal experts argued.

The critique came in a Saturday editorial published by The Contrarian and co-written by lawyer and publisher Norm Eisen, retired U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner, University of Minnesota law professor Richard Painter, and lawyer and legal scholar Matthew Seligman.

On Wednesday, Blanche filed a judicial misconduct complaint targeting almost every active federal judge in Minnesota after several of them spoke publicly about the strain an immigration enforcement surge put on their courthouse last winter. The authors noted that during that period, federal officials repeatedly ignored court orders and judges received threats....