Todd Blanche has been Attorney General for less than a month and he’s already making history, just not the kind that gets you a good entry in the DOJ’s institutional memory. On Wednesday night, Blanche appeared and spoke at the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, becoming the first sitting Attorney General in American history to address a political party convention.
Eric Holder, who served as AG under Barack Obama and who has not been shy about this administration, had some thoughts. “Attorneys general don’t talk about political things,” Holder told NewsNation’s Joe Khalil. “He shouldn’t be there.” He called the appearance “unprecedented” and “disgraceful.”
House Democrats on the Judiciary panel were equally pointed:
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