All seven section heads of DOJ’s Northern District of Illinois’s criminal division have left the office. Todd Blanche has praised the U.S. attorney responsible, rewarding leadership that politicizes DOJ and drives out career public servants.

Mimi Rocah and Perry Carbone worked alongside Todd Blanche at SDNY and once considered him a friend. Their verdict now is that he has abandoned the independence and judgment the attorney general’s office requires. Read their full piece: justiceconnection.substack.com/p/weve-worke...

Liz Oyer’s powerful testimony before the Senate showed what Todd Blanche’s leadership has meant for the Justice Department. Her illegal firing and the intimidation that followed represent the mistreatment that so many career employees have experienced under Blanche’s leadership at DOJ.

Todd Blanche’s hearing confirmed what we knew – he still views himself as Trump’s lawyer. And after his hearing there are critical questions left to be answered. Justice Connection’s DOJ alumni network prepared the following questions Senators should demand he answer before any confirmation vote.

Former AG Ashcroft is right. The Attorney General has a responsibility to enforce the law uniformly. Todd Blanche has failed that test.

Senator Grassley knows the more than 1,200 DOJ alumni who signed Justice Connection’s letter are not “partisan activists.” They are civil servants who proudly enforced the rule of law across 14 administrations of BOTH parties. They know DOJ best, and they know that Blanche is unfit to lead it.

Todd Blanche officially gets to own Kash Patel’s tax-payer funded vacations and reported security risks as FBI Director.

Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche's prosecutions of Comey and other political adversaries of President Trump reveal a pattern of prosecutorial sycophancy, write Grant Tudor and Kristy Parker.

Senator Booker cites Justice Connection’s letter from 1,200+ former DOJ officials warning that Todd Blanche’s personal allegiance to Donald Trump over the rule of law makes him unfit to serve as Attorney General. Read it in full: www.thejusticeconnection.org/news-and-pre...

Todd Blanche is a failed acting Attorney General. He steadfastly has represented the interests of the president of the United States. He has NOT represented the interests of the American people. Indeed, he has VICTIMIZED the American people, first among them, the Epstein victims/survivors.

Todd Blanche built his legal career in New York. Today, the New York City Bar Association says his record makes him unfit to lead DOJ by putting loyalty to Trump ahead of the integrity of the Justice Department.

This is not the answer of an independent Attorney General.

Senator Kennedy: “Are you and President Trump friends?” Todd Blanche: “I’m his lawyer.” Blanche has never stopped representing Donald Trump at DOJ.

As Todd Blanche testifies before the Senate, a reminder that an unprecedented 1,200 former DOJ employees have urged Senators to reject his nomination for Attorney General: www.thejusticeconnection.org/news-and-pre...

“Todd Blanche does not serve justice,” @michaelfanone.bsky.social says. “He serves criminals who beat up cops and assaulted our democracy.” In a new Justice Connection video, Fanone joins former January 6 DOJ prosecutor Mike Gordon in urging the Senate to reject Blanche’s nomination for AG.

In Justice Connection’s latest piece, Andrew Tessman explains how this administration’s assault on the Merit Systems Protection Board exposes federal employees to political retaliation and threatens DOJ’s independence. justiceconnection.substack.com/p/a-justice-...

New reporting shows Todd Blanche had a tight grip on the Weaponization Working Group and assigned his own staff to lead vindictive investigations. Blanche has twisted DOJ’s mission to prosecute Trump’s enemies.

Not every case requires the same workload, nor does every district see the same kinds of cases.

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who helped lead the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 had their convictions tossed out by Todd Blanche’s DOJ. Senators must not confirm an Attorney General who openly excuses the attack on our democracy. Especially ones who have publicly drawn that red line.

In a scathing decision, a federal judge just struck down Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund and sweetheart IRS immunity deal. The fact that Todd Blanche ever tried to push this corrupt scheme through should disqualify him from serving as Attorney General.

Jon Stewart’s interview with Jack Smith and Brian Driscoll, a member of our FBI Advisory Board, gets at the heart of what’s happening at DOJ. Attacks on the rule of law start with attacks on the dedicated public servants who enforce it. Listen here:

Justice Connection Advisory Committee member Jocelyn Samuel’s firing was an outrage. Our country would be a fairer and more just place if she was still enforcing Americans’ civil rights as a Commissioner.

This admin's "flood the zone" strategy makes it hard to keep up with attacks on the rule of law. That's why we built the DOJ Tracker. In June's update, Justice Connection breaks down Todd Blanche’s nomination and Stephen Miller’s influence inside DOJ: justiceconnection.substack.com/p/doj-tracke...

Todd Blanche’s response to more than 1,200 former DOJ officials opposing his nomination was to minimize and dismiss the very people who know the department best. That contempt for DOJ’s workforce is exactly what makes him unfit to lead it.

This DOJ has only challenged one merger in the last 1.5 years, though career attorneys have recommended challenging several. When DOJ leaders consider antitrust reviews a nuisance to dealmaking, consumers lose.

More than 1,200 former DOJ employees joined Justice Connection’s letter urging the Senate to reject Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General. Want to be part of future efforts to defend the rule of law and the Department’s integrity? Sign up to stay informed:

More than 1,200 former DOJ employees are speaking out in Justice Connection’s letter urging Senators to reject his AG nomination. We all took the same oath as Todd Blanche – and he’s utterly failing to abide by it. More from @msnownews.bsky.social:

More than 1,200 former DOJ employees signed Justice Connection’s letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. These are the people who know the Department best, and their message is clear: Todd Blanche has disqualified himself from leading it. Read more from @politico.com:

Todd Blanche has bent the Justice Department to serve Donald Trump, degrade the career workforce, and abandon blind justice. Watch Justice Connection Founder, Stacey Young, on why more than 1,200 former DOJ employees have come together urging Senators to reject Todd Blanche’s AG nomination:

Justice Connection has brought together more than 1,200 former DOJ employees to oppose Todd Blanche’s nomination for AG. Our letter warns Senators that a vote to confirm Blanche is a vote to undermine the independence of our Justice Department. Read it: www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

When hundreds of intelligence analysts are reassigned from their usual workload to review 2020 voting records just because the President can’t accept that he lost, it puts our country at risk.

A new @aclu.org report shows that police in Louisville, Minneapolis and Memphis continue to use excessive force after DOJ ended consent decrees last year, calling them “unjustified.” DOJ’s abandonment of police reform is putting communities at risk.

The Civil Rights Division’s Educational Opportunities Section “has lost most of its attorneys under this administration because the department made it clear that it was not interested in doing the traditional work the section had done combating discrimination in education,” said Stacey Young.

Changing DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division to the ‘Energy’ and Natural Resources Division caters to the priorities of the President and an Administration using energy “emergencies” to evade environmental laws. Read Justice Connection’s full statement:

When DOJ scales back white-collar criminal enforcement, the message to large corporations is clear: even serious allegations can end in a slap on the wrist instead of real accountability.

The White House’s pressure campaign against the MSPB to make it easier to fire career employees is an attack on the safeguards that keep government accountable to the law rather than to politics.

Marnie Shiels spent 24 years at DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women. She warns that DOJ’s proposal to fold OVW into a broader grantmaking bureau would violate federal law, add bureaucracy, and weaken the specialized leadership survivors depend on. Read more:

The President and White House Counsel should have no role in resolving DOJ cases. Antitrust enforcement must be driven by career staff applying the facts and the law, not political pressure from the White House.

“If the Senate confirms Blanche, it’s not just confirming someone as AG; it’s endorsing Trump weaponization. That’s what’s at stake in the Senate confirmation: whether the Senate will exercise what I believe are its responsibilities to ensure that law enforcement isn’t abused.” – Jack Goldsmith

A former AG should be the first person to reject an AG nominee who signs off on weaponized prosecutions and investigations, unlawful DOJ firings, the president’s IRS immunity deal, and failing to fully comply with the law to release the Epstein files. Blind loyalty is NOT constitutional judgment.

The immigration judges and DOJ officials speaking out are shining an important light on what’s happening inside our immigration courts. Due process depends on independent judges free from political pressure.

OPM’s proposed governmentwide NDA would make it harder for public servants to speak out about abuse they witness from the inside. Justice Connection submitted a public comment urging OPM to reject it. Join us to weigh in before June 26: justiceconnection.substack.com/publish/post...

Former IRS and DOJ officials are warning that Trump’s proposed settlement could give him, his family, and his political allies extraordinary protection from tax audits. No one, not even a president, should have his own tax code. abcnews.com/Politics/for...

In yet another example of DOJ abusing its immense subpoena powers, a federal judge ruled that subpoenas to Governor Walz and Mayor Frey were meant to coerce Minnesota officials to carry out Trump’s immigration agenda—something states aren’t obligated to assist with.

When victims are ignored, justice is denied. Justice Connection’s latest Substack details how DOJ leadership has repeatedly failed their duty, from the botched Epstein files release to shelving victim-rights training and privacy protections.

Todd Blanche’s office forced prosecutors to close an investigation into a fraudster who allegedly paid millions to Trump insiders to facilitate his clemency. Blanche’s top priority is and always will be to protect the President. Read here: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

Todd Blanche refused requests by members of Congress to put in writing that the Slush Fund is dead, and now he has failed to comply with a court’s request to do so. This obstinance is by design: it leaves the door open to using taxpayer funds to compensate J6 offenders and other Trump loyalists.

Americans with disabilities deserve to be part of the community and receive care in their homes. DOJ’s memo last week threatens these rights, taking us back to the era of widespread institutionalization.

An IG who cannot call the events of January 6, 2021, an “attack” on the Capitol is an IG who cannot be independent of the White House. Americans who watched that day unfold, and the DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents who investigated thousands of violent offenses from it, know what they saw.

Denaturalization cases will pull resources from other priorities and won’t give this admin what it wants. As executive director of Justice Connection Stacey Young told CNN, “the litigation process itself is still going to be a huge impediment to their goal of denaturalizing people in huge numbers.”