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Todd Blanche

Todd Blanche is named in 79 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 2024 to 2026.

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Quick facts

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Full nameTodd Wallace Blanche
BornAugust 6, 1974, Denver, Colorado
EducationAmerican University (B.A., 1994); Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 2003)
Current roleActing Attorney General of the United States (since April 2, 2026); nominee for permanent Attorney General (June 4, 2026)
Prior roleDeputy Attorney General (January 20, 2025 – April 2, 2026)
Known forLead criminal-defense counsel to Donald Trump (2023–2024); rapid rise to lead the second-term DOJ
Disclosed assetsCryptocurrency holdings valued at $159,000–$485,000 (ProPublica disclosure, March 8, 2026)

Key positions

YearsPosition
2003–2017Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York (violent-crimes division)
2017 – April 2023Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (white-collar criminal defense)
April 2023 – January 2025Founder and managing partner, Blanche Law
Jan. 20, 2025 – April 2, 2026Deputy Attorney General of the United States
April 2, 2026 – presentActing Attorney General of the United States
June 4, 2026 – presentNominee for permanent Attorney General

Biography

Todd Blanche was born August 6, 1974, in Denver, Colorado; his family relocated to Gainesville, Florida, in 1987. He earned a B.A. from American University in 1994 and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2003. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York’s violent-crimes division (2003–2017) before moving into private practice as a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in 2017, where he built a white-collar criminal-defense practice.

The defining inflection in Blanche’s career came in April 2023, when he left Cadwalader to found his own firm, Blanche Law, after his firm declined to represent Donald Trump in the New York hush-money case (Bloomberg Law; Newsweek, April 2023). The new firm was effectively built around the Trump representation. Blanche went on to serve as lead criminal-defense counsel to Trump in the Manhattan hush-money case (a 34-count guilty verdict on May 30, 2024) and as co-counsel in the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents case (dismissed July 15, 2024) and the federal January 6 / election-obstruction case (dismissed November 25, 2024). At Cadwalader he had also represented Trump-orbit figures including former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Giuliani-network businessman Igor Fruman, and attorney Boris Epshteyn.

On January 20, 2025 — the day Trump took office — Blanche was sworn in as Deputy Attorney General. On April 2, 2026, the same day Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files, Blanche became Acting Attorney General under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (CBS News). On June 4, 2026, Trump formally nominated him for permanent Attorney General; the nomination drew documented Republican resistance, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune saying it was “Hard to say” whether Blanche could win confirmation, and no hearing had been scheduled as of June 9, 2026. The professional pivot of one criminal-defense lawyer to one client became, within three years, the leadership of the second-term Department of Justice.

As Acting Attorney General, Blanche disclosed cryptocurrency holdings valued at $159,000–$485,000 (ProPublica, March 8, 2026), reported during the same period in which, as Deputy AG, he had ordered an end to inherited crypto-company investigations and disbanded the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team — an unresolved potential conflict flagged in that reporting.

Sources

Todd Blanche on the timeline 79 events · 2016–2026 · click any marker
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2026-11-02DOJ Announces Charges Involving 63 Individuals for Election-Related Crimes the Day Before Election Day 1 src
Department of Justice · Todd Blanche
confirmed
2026-11-02Former FBI Chicago Chief DePodesta Sues Boutros, Alleging Forced Resignation After the Broadview Six Collapse 1 src
Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed
2026-10-29Unions and Voting-Rights Groups Sue DOJ and DHS in N.D. Cal. Over Threats to Prosecute Election Workers 2 src
Service Employees International Union · AFSCME · League of United Latin American Citizens · NAACP · +4
confirmed
2026-10-22AG Blanche, Asked in Norfolk Whether DOJ Could Block a State From Certifying, Says He Won't Say There Are No Circumstances 3 src
Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Kash Patel
confirmed
2026-10-22DOJ Indicts Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas, Who Led the State's Democratic Redistricting Effort, in Alleged Racketeering Conspiracy Over a Marijuana Enterprise 3 src
Todd Blanche · Kash Patel
confirmed
2026-10-21AG Blanche on NY Post Podcast Calls DOJ-White House Independence a "Misperception": "I Work for President Trump" 2 src
Todd Blanche · Merrick Garland · Department of Justice
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2026-10-21Chief Judge Boasberg Takes Trujillo v. DHS, Sets Oct. 30 Hearing on Superseding TRO Motion Over California Voter Lists; Government Opposition Filed Oct. 26 11 src
Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche
reported
2026-10-20Justice Department and White House Announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program (WHIP): Cash for Tips Before Conviction, With Trump Naming Himself Arbitrator 5 src
Donald Trump · JD Vance · Todd Blanche · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
confirmed
2026-10-19Judge Sooknanan Grants Government Motion to Reassign Trujillo v. DHS (California Non-Citizen Voter Demand); Case Was Not Related to Earlier LWV v. DHS 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche
reported
2026-10-16DOJ Files Notice of Appeal and Motion for Stay Pending Appeal of Sooknanan's Voter List Maintenance Vacatur in Common Cause v. DOJ 4 src
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Common Cause
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2026-10-16NAACP Sues Blanche, Dhillon and DOJ in D.D.C. Under Voting Rights Act Section 11(b) and the APA Over the "Poll Monitoring Program," Seeking to Bar Prosecutors and Agents From Serving as Monitors 8 src
NAACP · Todd Blanche · Harmeet Dhillon
confirmed
2026-10-15DOJ Press Release on California Suit Quotes DHS Secretary Mullin Calling the 20,000-Name Analysis "Preliminary" and the Review "Ongoing" 2 src
Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter · Bill Essayli · +2
confirmed
2026-10-15DOJ Sues California, Weber and LA County's Logan in C.D. Cal. to Bar Tabulating Mail Ballots of Over 20,000 Voters DHS Flags as Likely Noncitizens 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Shirley Weber · Dean Logan · R. Trent McCotter · +1
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2026-10-15Fired FBI Employees Sue Patel and Blanche in D.D.C. (Bacon v. Patel, 1:26-cv-03604) 3 src
Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
reported
2026-10-15Padilla, Durbin and Whitehouse Ask AG Blanche to Rule Out Seizing Ballots Before Certification, Answers Due Oct. 29 2 src
Alex Padilla · Dick Durbin · Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche · +1
confirmed
2026-10-09PBS Obtains Revised DOJ Hatch Act Memo That Exempts Senate-Confirmed Appointees, Including Blanche, From "Further Restricted" Rules; Blanche Has Spoken at GOP Events 2 src
Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi
confirmed
2026-09-30DOJ Announces Wave of 90 Election Cases in 12 Days; DHS Claims 1,600 Fraud Investigations Ahead of Midterms 2 src
DOJ · Todd Blanche · DHS · Markwayne Mullin
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2026-09-30DOJ Files Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Minnesota Judges Schiltz and Tunheim Over New York Times Interviews, Asks for Their Recusal from DHS Cases 2 src
Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter
reported
2026-09-30Kurt Olsen Steps Off DOJ's Florida "Grand Conspiracy" Case but Stays on DOJ Payroll; Blanche Says He "Has Not Resigned" 2 src
Todd Blanche · Joseph DiGenova · Maria Medetis Long
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2026-09-29Capitol-Attack Defendants Bring Federal Tort Claims Act Complaints Against the United States in D.D.C. 5 src
Todd Blanche · Peter Ticktin
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2026-09-24EOIR Swears In 47 New Immigration Judges and 6 Temporary Immigration Judges at Columbia, SC Investiture 2 src
Executive Office for Immigration Review · Todd Blanche
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2026-09-23Reuters Review: DOJ Has Charged About 20 People This Month Under the "Voting by Aliens" Statute, Roughly 13% of All Prosecutions Under It; DOJ Spokesperson Counts 32 in Four Weeks 1 src
Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter · Ken Paxton · Department of Homeland Security · +1
confirmed
2026-09-14ProPublica: IBA president Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Trump Jr.'s May 2026 Bahamas wedding-weekend celebrations; repayment later asserted by Trump, unevidenced 6 src
Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Robert Garcia
reported
2026-09-10Joe diGenova Resigns as Head of DOJ's Florida "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Clashes Over Its Pace; Probe Has Brought No Charges 3 src
Joseph DiGenova · Todd Blanche · Maria Medetis Long
confirmed
2026-08-10ICE Agents Box In and Point Gun at US Citizen Carolina Molina in Falls Church; Six House Members Demand FBI Probe 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · James Walkinshaw · Robert Garcia · Bennie Thompson · +5
confirmed
2026-08-08Senate Confirms Trump's Former Defense Lawyer Todd Blanche as Attorney General, 50-49 5 src
Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Bill Cassidy · Susan Collins · +3
confirmed
2026-08-04Senate Judiciary Advances Blanche AG Nomination 12-10 as Catalog Documents 200+ Instances of DOJ 'Presumption of Regularity' Collapse 3 src
Todd Blanche · Senate Judiciary Committee
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2026-08-01DOJ Directs US Attorneys to Submit Adverse Rulings as Judicial Impeachment Fodder; Blanche Calls It 'War' on the Judiciary 4 src
Todd Blanche · Department of Justice
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2026-07-15Blanche Endorses ICE at 2026 Polling Places (CPAC, March 26) and, as Acting AG, Declines to Rule Out Federal Agents There (July 15) 3 src
Todd Blanche · Steve Bannon · Ed Markey · Department of Justice · +1
confirmed
2026-07-15Todd Blanche, Trump's Former Personal Defense Lawyer, Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing for Permanent Attorney General 1 src
Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee
reported
2026-07-14Raskin to Acting AG Blanche: DOJ Pattern of Defying Court Orders 'Strongly Suggests' Prosecutors Ordered to Violate the Law 1 src
Jamie Raskin · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice
disputed
2026-06-05DOJ Files Supplemental Response to Mehta's Oath Keepers Order; Response Described by Critics as Insufficient 3 src
Judge Amit Mehta · Todd Blanche · DOJ · Stewart Rhodes · +2
confirmed
2026-06-04Blanche AG Confirmation Faces GOP Resistance; Grassley Confirms Receipt; Hearing Not Scheduled; Summer Timeline Uncertain 4 src
Todd Blanche · Chuck Grassley · Senate Judiciary Committee · John Thune
confirmed
2026-06-04Blanche Nominated Permanent AG; Senate Testimony Reveals Anti-Weaponization Fund Scrapped 3 src
Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Dan Scavino · Senate Judiciary Committee · +1
confirmed
2026-06-04Bondi Epstein Transcript Released: Privilege Invoked on Trump Conversations; Blanche Named 30+ Times 4 src
Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · House Oversight Committee · +1
confirmed
2026-05-29Judge Mehta Blocks DOJ Motion to Dismiss Oath Keepers Cases with Prejudice; Orders DOJ Explain Public Interest by June 5 5 src
Judge Amit Mehta · Todd Blanche · DOJ · Stewart Rhodes · +2
confirmed
2026-05-22Federal Judge in Nashville Dismisses Human-Smuggling Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Finding DOJ Reverse-Engineered Charges to Retroactively Justify Wrongful Deportation 7 src
Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Trump Administration
confirmed
2026-05-14Warren and Reed Demand DOJ/Treasury Probe of World Liberty Financial Token Sales to Sanctioned Actors 2 src
Elizabeth Warren · Jack Reed · Scott Bessent · Todd Blanche · +1
confirmed
2026-05-13ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Against Memphis Safe Task Force Alleging Pattern of First Amendment Retaliation Against Civilians Recording Federal Immigration Enforcement 5 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Todd Blanche · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +5
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2026-05-12Robert Reich Publishes Substack Piece Describing 25th Amendment 'Plot to Oust Trump'; Names Vance, Rubio, Johnson, Thune, Hegseth, Blanche; 30% Probability Within Four Months 1 src
J.D. Vance · Marco Rubio · Mike Johnson · John Thune · +3
confirmed
2026-04-28Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director Comey on 2 Counts Over '8647' Seashell Photo Alleged as Threat to Trump 6 src
James Comey · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Patrick Fitzgerald · +1
confirmed
2026-04-25Gunman Cole Allen Attempts Assassination of Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner; Secret Service Officer Shot 6 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · J.D. Vance · U.S. Secret Service · +4
confirmed
2026-04-21DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Counts Including Wire Fraud, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering 5 src
Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2
confirmed
2026-04-20DiGenova Sworn In as AG Counselor Leading Brennan "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Career Prosecutor Removed for Questioning Evidence 13 src
Joseph DiGenova · Todd Blanche · Kash Patel · Harmeet Dhillon · +4
confirmed
2026-04-14D.C. Circuit Panel Grants Mandamus Ending Boasberg's Criminal Contempt Proceedings; Full Court Vacated the Order June 22 6 src
James Boasberg · Todd Blanche · Emil Bove · Kristi Noem
reported
2026-04-02Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, Installs Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche as Acting AG 5 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Lee Zeldin
confirmed
2026-03-20Sen. Whitehouse Demands Bondi Preserve All Records Related to DOJ Ethics Shield Rule 2 src
Sheldon Whitehouse · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche
confirmed
2026-03-18Democrats Walk Out of Bondi-Blanche Epstein Briefing After Comer Vulgar Remark 4 src
Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · James Comer · Robert Garcia
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2026-03-18Wyden Accuses DAG Blanche of Blocking Unredacted DEA Memo on Epstein Drug Trafficking Investigation 4 src
Ron Wyden · Todd Blanche
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2026-03-12DOJ Proposes Rule Giving Attorney General Veto Power Over Bar Complaints Against Government Lawyers 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Ed Martin
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2026-03-08ProPublica Reveals Top DOJ, DOD Officials Hold Financial Interests in Sectors They Regulate 1 src
Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Steve Feinberg · ProPublica
confirmed
2026-02-24NPR Investigation Reveals DOJ Secretly Withheld Epstein Files Containing Abuse Accusations Against Trump 5 src
Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Robert Garcia · +2
confirmed
2026-02-14Bondi Claims All Epstein Files Released, Sends Six-Page Justification Letter to Congress 4 src
Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Robert Garcia
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2026-02-02Deputy AG Blanche Announces No Further Epstein Prosecutions 4 src
Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Ro Khanna
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2026-01-30DOJ Epstein Files Release Exposes 43+ Survivor Names in Historic Privacy Violation 3 src
Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche
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2026-01-30DOJ Releases 3.5 Million Pages of Epstein Files, Claims Full Compliance 4 src
Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Ro Khanna · +1
confirmed
2026-01-24Border Patrol Agents Kill Alex Pretti, Second Legal Observer Shot in Minneapolis in Three Weeks 5 src
Alex Pretti · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Todd Blanche · +4
confirmed
2026-01-13DOJ Civil Rights Division Leaders Mass Resign Over Refusal to Investigate Renee Good Killing 3 src
Harmeet Dhillon · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi
confirmed
2026-01-13Twelve Federal Prosecutors Resign Over DOJ Handling of Renee Good Shooting 5 src
Todd Blanche · Harmeet Dhillon · U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-01-06DOJ Admits Less Than 1% of Epstein Files Released, 48 Days After Law's Deadline 2 src
Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Chuck Schumer
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2025-12-19Bipartisan Lawmakers Accuse DOJ of Violating Epstein Files Transparency Act 5 src
Ro Khanna · Thomas Massie · Chuck Schumer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +3
confirmed
2025-12-19DOJ Releases Heavily Redacted Epstein Files, 550+ Pages Completely Blacked Out 5 src
Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · +1
confirmed
2025-12-10DOJ Leaders Attack Federal Judges for Disqualifying Lindsey Halligan as Unlawfully Appointed U.S. Attorney 4 src
Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Lindsey Halligan · Cameron McGowan Currie · +4
reported
2025-12-05Federal Judge Orders Release of Epstein Grand Jury Materials from 2005-2007 Florida Investigations 4 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Alexander Acosta · +2
reported
2025-12-04Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Warns DOJ Tracks Lawyers' Public Criticism of Prosecutions 6 src
Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · American Bar Association
reported
2025-11-26DOJ Reveals Kristi Noem Made Final Decision to Defy Judge's Order on El Salvador Deportation Flights 6 src
Kristi Noem · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · +1
confirmed
2025-11-12Rep. Lauren Boebert Summoned to White House Situation Room Over Epstein Files Petition 4 src
Lauren Boebert · Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Kash Patel · +2
confirmed
2025-10-17Two Federal Prosecutors Fired After Refusing to Bring Charges Against Letitia James 4 src
Elizabeth Yusi · Erik Siebert · Letitia James · Donald Trump · +4
reported
2025-09-25DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros' Open Society Foundations for Alleged Terrorism Ties 3 src
Department of Justice · George Soros · Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · +1
reported
2025-09-22DOJ Closes Homan FBI Sting Case Despite Recorded $50K Cash Exchange 5 src
Tom Homan · Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi
confirmed
2025-08-22DOJ Releases 377-Page Transcript of Maxwell-Blanche Interview, Denies Client List 3 src
Department of Justice · Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche
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2025-08-01Ghislaine Maxwell Transferred to Minimum-Security Texas Prison Camp After Meeting with DOJ Officials 3 src
Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · +1
confirmed
2025-07-14Pam Bondi ousts DOJ ethics director Joseph Tirrell amid mass prosecutor dismissal 3 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Todd Blanche
confirmed
2025-06-10Justice Dept. Issues Narrow Guidelines for Prosecuting Corporate Bribery Abroad 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Todd Blanche
confirmed
2025-04-08Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team 3 src
Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-04-07Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Pressured into $100M Pro Bono Deal by Trump White House 4 src
Donald Trump · Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche
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2025-03-08Trump's Justice Department fires head of organized crime drug task force 3 src
Donald Trump · Todd Blanche
confirmed
2025-02-14How Trump's Justice Department has Gutted the Government's Ability to Chase Public Corruption 4 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration
confirmed
2024-04-15First Criminal Trial of Former U.S. President Begins - Trump Faces 34 Felony Counts in Manhattan 4 src
Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg · Todd Blanche
confirmed

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