{"id":27886,"date":"2026-07-15T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=27886"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:43:23","slug":"todd-blanche-gets-senate-shellacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/15\/todd-blanche-gets-senate-shellacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Blanche gets Senate shellacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He might not get Judiciary Committee approval.<\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/todd-blanche-2677227247\/\">White House in crisis mode as Todd Blanche gets brutal shellacking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/todd-blanche-confirmation-2677225602\/\">&#8216;Painful to watch&#8217; \u2013 Hundreds of Todd Blanche&#8217;s ex-colleagues unite to condemn confirmation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/introducing-mr-branch-chuck-grassley-92-butchers-todd-blanches-name-during-ag-hearing\/\">Introducing \u2018Mr. Branch\u2019! Chuck Grassley, 92, Butchers Todd Blanche\u2019s Name During AG Hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meidas: <a href=\"https:\/\/meidasnews.com\/news\/schiff-slams-todd-blanche-confirmation-in-exclusive-interview-with-meidastouch\">Watch this! Sen. Adam Schiff fricassees Blanche in Meidas interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-irs-lawsuit-immunity-blanche.html\">Acting attorney general Todd Blanche\u2019s decision to grant President Trump protection from I.R.S. audits is set to be a central issue in his confirmation hearing on Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meidas: <a href=\"https:\/\/meidasnews.com\/news\/exclusive-on-day-of-todd-blanche-confirmation-hearing-house-democrats-launch-probe-of-blanches-changes-to-taxpayer-funded-grants\">On Day of Todd Blanche Confirmation Hearing, House Democrats Launch Probe of Blanche\u2019s Changes to Taxpayer-Funded Grants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz Dte: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicnotice.co\/p\/todd-blanche-confirmation-hearing\">Todd Blanche is Roy Cohn\u2026 but worse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He might not get Judiciary Committee approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27931,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions\/27931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}