'This is the end': Legal expert sounds the alarm as Todd Blanche awaits Senate vote

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'This is the end': Legal expert sounds the alarm as Todd Blanche awaits Senate vote
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche takes questions in a press conference to announce new Trump administration actions against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., on August 5, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A legal expert delivered a stunning comment about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Justice Department on Thursday.

In a Substack interview with President Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, Vance argued that the corruption of the DOJ has hit a fever pitch.

And as Blanche awaits Senate confirmation to be the United States Attorney General, it's clear that he has sacrificed his responsibility to serve the country and instead "he's functioning as the president’s criminal defense attorney," Vance said.

"That is not the job of the Attorney General," Vance explained.

"The Attorney General represents the American people, not the president," Vance said. "Todd Blanche was once regarded very highly by many of the lawyers who worked with him in the Southern District of New York. They considered him a good lawyer and a good person. Somewhere along the way, though, he lost his way."

There has been a difference between Blanche, who was considered a "good lawyer and good person," and those who have stood up against Trump, Vance argued.

"We watched respected attorneys in the Southern District of New York lose their careers because they refused to compromise their professional ethics. Todd Blanche remained fully complicit throughout all of it," Vance said.

"That’s because Todd Blanche doesn’t believe in the rule of law. He believes in the rule of Donald Trump. He believes in the unitary executive, in an all powerful presidency," she added.

"I honestly don’t know that there are enough adjectives available to describe how dangerous this is," Vance said. "So let me say it plainly. This is the end of the Department of Justice as we’ve known it."

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Fauci's wife deploys vulgar salute in defiance after GOP moves against 'sullen' doctor

Dr. Anthony Fauci's wife had a visceral reaction to a reporter who caught up with the couple on Thursday.

According to the New York Post, "Just hours after the vote to refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution, a sullen-looking Fauci was spotted frowning as he dutifully wheeled a recycling bin to the curb of the $2.4 million Washington, DC, home he shares with his wife and Georgetown University colleague, Christine Grady." After Fauci then entered a car being driven by his wife, "Grady, apparently enraged by the photographer’s presence in their tony neighborhood, flipped off the camera before peeling off."

Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently faced the hot seat before a Senate panel where Republicans hostilely grilled him on his recommendations for infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) used the opportunity to advance his pet theory that Fauci helped fund Chinese research that may have created the virus, a claim for which there is no evidence.

Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times, saying that while he has done nothing wrong, his legal counsel had advised him that any answers to GOP questioning could be twisted against him for a weaponized prosecution.

The contempt vote was based on the idea that Fauci's refusal to answer questions obstructed Congress' oversight powers. Paul intends to submit the committee vote directly to the Justice Department, rather than a full vote of the Senate as is typical for contempt referrals.

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Mitch McConnell shares new health update

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shared new details about his health in a statement Thursday.

"Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home," McConnell said.

His discharge is the first official update in weeks regarding his health.

McConnell also thanked supporters, colleagues, constituents, and medical staff who assisted with his care.

"On the advice of my doctors, I'll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period, and I'll continue to engage with my staff and colleagues on important Senate business," the statement read.

McConnell did not specify when he plans to return to Congress or provide details about his condition.

The announcement comes after weeks of public speculation about his well-being and recovery following his June hospitalization, during which he reportedly received CPR after being found unconscious.

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Trump memo naming his own FBI as 'deep state' floors legal experts: 'So weird'

Legal experts flagged a newly declassified memo that the White House called deep-state proof, even though it was about Trump's FBI.

During an interview on "All Rise News," legal journalists Adam Klasfeld and Allison Gill dissected the declassified FBI memo that the White House touted as proof of a "deep state" plot against President Donald Trump, even though it actually revealed that the FBI investigated him during his first term as a possible Russian asset.

"It's just one gunshot to the foot after another," Gill, who chronicled the probe by Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller, said. The memo was released by former reporter John Solomon and is dated the day before Mueller's May 2017 appointment.

Klasfeld pointed out that the "deep state" that the White House described in the memo was staffed entirely by Trump's own appointees. Despite that, the memo described how the FBI under Trump opened a full counterintelligence investigation into whether he was "wittingly or unwittingly" acting on behalf of the Russian government, Klasfeld said.

"I don't know how you're supposed to have a deep state in the agencies that you control," Gill agreed. "It's just so weird to me that Solomon, who I presume can read, is saying, 'Look at all this deep state stuff.'"

The memo was triggered by Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, an act that raised the possibility of criminal obstruction of justice, Gill pointed out. That possible obstruction wasn't hypothetical, Klasfeld noted, as Mueller's final report later documented it.

"It's hard to call it confirmation because there is confirmation that there was an investigation into Donald Trump for a possible obstruction of justice," he said. "And it's called the Mueller Report."

Mueller went on to catalog roughly 10 instances of potential obstruction before declining to reach a prosecutorial finding. On top of that, Gill said that FBI investigators did their job so cleanly that Solomon and the White House have nothing to take out of context.

"They can't even cherry-pick," she said. "There's nothing even to cherry-pick."

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