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<\/a><\/p>\nDean Obeidallah: Todd Blanche should not be confirmed as Attorney General. He should be disbarred<\/a>.<\/h2>\nDonald Trump is nominating his personal lawyer and current Acting Attorney Todd Blanche to be his Attorney General. Here\u2019s the reality: Todd Blanche should NOT be getting confirmed as Attorney General. He should be getting disbarred! In fact, he should be investigated for potential crimes. That is not just my view but also Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa) who told<\/a> me point blank about Blanche, \u201cHe should be disbarred, and disbarred is not enough<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\nWe\u2019ve never seen an AG as openly corrupt as Todd Blanche whose only focus is serving Trump. In a nutshell, Blanche is the architect of the largest cover up of sex crimes in US history in connection with Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s child rape and sex trafficking ring. He is the reason Epstein\u2019s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is in a cushy Club Fed. Blanche is why Trump is getting immunity from IRS audits which will mean he does for not pay in the area of $100 million<\/a> in taxes to the United States. And he\u2019s also why we are seeing the criminal prosecution of Trump\u2019s political critics from James Comey to Tish James and more.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 6, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the wee hours of Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed a measure to provide about $70 billion in additional funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the parent agency for Border Patrol. They did so without meeting any of the demands Democrats had made to reform ICE and Border Patrol in the wake of the violent sweeps that led to the deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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… Democrats used amendments to cause an 18-hour debate that forced Republicans to vote against a number of measures that are popular with the American people, showing how Republicans really stand.<\/p>\n
Republicans blocked Democratic proposals to stop Trump from establishing the $1.776 billion slush fund with the complicity of the men he has appointed to the Department of Justice and to prevent any such fund from giving payouts to people convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n
Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to bar the use of federal funds or private donations for Trump\u2019s ballroom unless Congress explicitly approved.<\/p>\n
Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to bar William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing and Finance Agency, from serving as the director of national intelligence by providing that no one could direct the Office of National Intelligence while heading a different agency. Trump has announced that Pulte will be the acting director of national intelligence, putting him in place through the midterm elections with the evident plan that he will weaponize intelligence against the president\u2019s political opponents.
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At least 18 people incarcerated in detainment facilities have died in the first five months of 2026. At least 30 died last year, the highest number in 20 years. MacMillan notes that a number of those deaths happened after detainees were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Today Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) went back to Delaney Hall, the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, to talk with detainees. Despite the established congressional duty of oversight, \u201cICE refused to let me talk to any detainees,\u201d he said. \u201cThey restricted my ability to do my job.\u201d
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[Hegseth] perverted a commemoration of D-Day, when American soldiers fought with their Allies to defend democracy against fascism, into a call for the racial ideology on which fascism was based. Embracing the Great Replacement theory that says the culture of white Europeans and Americans is being undermined by people of color from Africa and Asia, he flipped the Allied and Nazi positions.
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We\u2019ve never seen an AG as openly corrupt as Todd Blanche whose only focus is serving Trump. In a nutshell, Blanche is the architect of the largest cover up of sex crimes in US history in connection with Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s child rape and sex trafficking ring. He is the reason Epstein\u2019s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is in a cushy Club Fed. Blanche is why Trump is getting immunity from IRS audits which will mean he does for not pay in the area of $100 million<\/a> in taxes to the United States. And he\u2019s also why we are seeing the criminal prosecution of Trump\u2019s political critics from James Comey to Tish James and more. In the wee hours of Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed a measure to provide about $70 billion in additional funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the parent agency for Border Patrol. They did so without meeting any of the demands Democrats had made to reform ICE and Border Patrol in the wake of the violent sweeps that led to the deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. … Democrats used amendments to cause an 18-hour debate that forced Republicans to vote against a number of measures that are popular with the American people, showing how Republicans really stand.<\/p>\n Republicans blocked Democratic proposals to stop Trump from establishing the $1.776 billion slush fund with the complicity of the men he has appointed to the Department of Justice and to prevent any such fund from giving payouts to people convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to bar the use of federal funds or private donations for Trump\u2019s ballroom unless Congress explicitly approved.<\/p>\n Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to bar William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing and Finance Agency, from serving as the director of national intelligence by providing that no one could direct the Office of National Intelligence while heading a different agency. Trump has announced that Pulte will be the acting director of national intelligence, putting him in place through the midterm elections with the evident plan that he will weaponize intelligence against the president\u2019s political opponents. At least 18 people incarcerated in detainment facilities have died in the first five months of 2026. At least 30 died last year, the highest number in 20 years. MacMillan notes that a number of those deaths happened after detainees were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n Today Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) went back to Delaney Hall, the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, to talk with detainees. Despite the established congressional duty of oversight, \u201cICE refused to let me talk to any detainees,\u201d he said. \u201cThey restricted my ability to do my job.\u201d [Hegseth] perverted a commemoration of D-Day, when American soldiers fought with their Allies to defend democracy against fascism, into a call for the racial ideology on which fascism was based. Embracing the Great Replacement theory that says the culture of white Europeans and Americans is being undermined by people of color from Africa and Asia, he flipped the Allied and Nazi positions.
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