Republican senators face test over Todd Blanche confirmation

politicsJun 10, 2026351,949

On June 9, 2026 President Donald J. Trump tapped Todd Blanche to serve as acting U.S. attorney general. The nomination puts Senate Republicans on the spot, with Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska identified as potential swing votes. Opponents point to Blanche's role in the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files and ongoing litigation over a slush fund as reasons to block his confirmation. Confirmation would give Blanche authority to shape DOJ policy and prosecutions in a Trump administration, making this vote consequential for the independence of law enforcement.

Rep. Robert Garcia

@robertgarcia.house.gov

I'm glad Chairman Comer finally agrees that our Committee should talk to Todd Blanche about Epstein. Oversight Democrats are also demanding that he agree to a videotaped, under-oath deposition. The American public deserves transparency.

69845d ago

Chris⚖️Justice12

👁️ Epstein archived videos of EVERY room of EVERY property for decades. Where are they? bsky.app/profile/chri...

Jim of Pennsyltucky10

@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov The people, the media, and Congress, should be screaming for the Jack Smith files as loudly as they are screaming for the Epstein files. The Jack Smith files will bring that decayed orange tyrant down just as fast as the Epstein files if not faster.

StLuGal8

Then he will refuse, and then you guys will allow him a non-under oath commentary that is not video taped, then republicans will come out of the session and lie about what happened, and then what? Didn't we just see this play out with Bondi?

Some Broad Thinking4

A video-taped under oath deposition with questions posed by an attorney, not elected representatives.

Rachel 🌈🚺 🥄 ♿️💙3

He won’t allow him to be videotaped. I’ll be shocked if he actually testifies.

velcrolove.bsky.social3

Is there a possibility for them to play hot-potato on responsibility for the release of Epstein files? What's the possibility that Todd will say Pam was in charge for release? It looks like they want to play games to delay accountability, and rack more days on releasing the rest of files.

Waldo3

This is a distraction. You have the names. Release the names. And the files. Unredacted. The law says they are to be released. Go in there, take the files and release them. You won't, because you're protecting the blackmail material. Just like POTUS and co. is doing.

lucivf.bsky.social3

And deserves truth under oath.

Amy Ruberg3

Thank you! Appreciate you! Go get 'em.

🌈☮️🇺🇦Lynn likes weed3

I’m sick to death of investigations that go nowhere because our gov is corrupt to the max and the ultra wealthy are never held accountable. Thanks for trying though.

Rottensisters2

Release the Epstein Trump files now.

gcs3.bsky.social2

If it’s not under oath it doesn’t mean much. Until you get these people under oath there will be no real accountability

The Watchdog Coalition

@thewatchdogco.bsky.social

Todd Blanche was Trump’s personal lawyer and helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Now Trump wants to make him Attorney General. That’s not justice — that’s protection for the powerful. Tell the Senate to reject Todd Blanche: #CantAffordTrump

24844d ago

autumnsky14.bsky.social2

They will do what trump wants and make him the next attorney general because they are cowards and afraid of trump.

Amanda Carpenter

@amandacarpenter.bsky.social

Three things to know about Todd Blanche, Trump's pick for Attorney General. He's the man behind the Thug Fund, the ridic Comey seashell case, and the Epstein files. BLANCHE=COVERUPS AND CORRUPTION FOR TRUMP. Pass it on, and let's get some accountability in this Senate confirmation process.

15545d ago

Jeff Spencer

@revjss.bsky.social

June 8 was just another day of corruption in the Trump administration, characterized by the nomination of Todd Blanche to become the attorney general of the United States. @hcrichardson.bsky.social brings the receipts in her June 9 “Letter.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-9-2026

A graphic of a quote from Dr. Heather Cox Richardson’s June 9, 2026, “Letter from an American,” which says, “the corruption of the administration has become too obvious to pretend doesn’t exist”

18444d ago

Big Ol’ Mush

@chadstanton.blacksky.app

Currently acting AG Todd Blanche being involved ought to make his confirmation hearing interesting too.

20644d ago

Scott Dworkin

@dworkin.bsky.social

Trump's personal lawyer wants to be your Attorney General. Todd Blanche turned the DOJ into a weapon against Trump's critics. Now the Senate votes. One click tells your senators: NO. Do it now 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

7244d ago

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

@whitehouse.senate.gov

The Judiciary Committee deliberately blinded itself to potential contempt of court by a MAGA judicial nominee, and rushed forward in the stay window. Will that “fixeroo” be repeated for Todd Blanche in his confirmation hearings?

8243d ago

wastrying.bsky.social

@wastrying.bsky.social

Todd Blanche's Life Is Imploding Farron Balanced Jun 9, 2026 Ted Lieu blasted Todd Blanche after the acting attorney general said DOJ had “moved on”... youtu.be/NxoLRGfo8hk?...

5144d ago

Pam Spaulding

@pamspaulding.bsky.social

One name that @robertgarcia.house.gov said came up in Bill Gates's testimony that has not been subpoenaed or asked to testify is Larry Summers. But it looks like there will be more names to go in James Comer's inbox. They need to be on video and under oath. Todd Blanche must be on the list.

4044d ago

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@sababausa.bsky.social

According today's NYT reporting, Todd Blanche proposed a bad-faith maneuver to ask for Epstein grand jury materials to be unsealed knowing they wouldn't be, then blaming the courts for opacity As corrupt as that is, it also didn't work as a comms strategy! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...

Option 1 was to petition Federal District Courts in Florida and New York to unseal the grand jury testimonies — the secret transcripts of prosecutors’ presentations of witnesses and evidence in their efforts to obtain indictments in past Epstein-related cases. As those were almost certain to contain no significant new information, everyone agreed that this option was a good idea, and not only because a release was unlikely to damage the president.

Under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the secrecy of grand jury materials is regarded by most federal judges as almost always inviolate, and the bar for any release is exceptionally high. If the courts refused to unseal them — as Blanche predicted — they could shift the blame for withholding the Epstein material away from the Trump administration and onto the judges. And all the better if the judges had been appointed by Democratic presidents. Blanche’s suggestion would make it appear that the White House wanted the materials released, when it was almost certain not to happen.

2645d ago

Our Common Defense

@ourcommondefense.bsky.social

Senate must interview Todd Blanche about his Epstein dealings given Bondi's testimony about his delegated role before taking up his AG confirmation

3244d ago

NOTUS

@notus.com

Rep. James Comer, the chair of the influential House Oversight Committee, told reporters that he is pushing to have acting AG Todd Blanche testify in front of the panel this summer about his handling of the release of millions of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

2444d ago

SkyEyes

@eyesnskies.bsky.social

House Dem Says ‘Explosive’ NY Times Report Shows Todd Blanche ‘At the Heart’ of Epstein-Trump Cover-Up Perhaps NOW he's at the heart, but it was Bill Barr who shut down the 2018/2019 investigation before he had Epstein " unalived" #BarrKilledEpstein #ProveMeWrong flip.it/zBn772

1144d ago

Patricia

@powermacuser1.bsky.social

Trump’s nomination of his former lawyer Todd Blanche for AG directly challenges Republican senators to collude with him & break the law. In November 2025 the Senate voted unanimously to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the DOJ to release all the files compiled by the FBI in ⬇️

945d ago

Hunter

@huntrgathrr.bsky.social

The Broadview case is bad enough, but there's increasing evidence some misconduct is originating with Todd Blanche's enforcer, Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh. He's also pushing prosecutors to find non-citizen voters using "creative" methods. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u... #Inners

944d ago

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Republican senators face test over Todd Blanche confirmation

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