Senate Judiciary Committee members will deliberate and vote on Thursday on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the permanent position. Because the nominee lacks critical qualifications to serve as the nation’s chief law enforcement official, members should reject his nomination.

Since March 2025, during Blanche’s tenure as deputy attorney general under Pam Bondi and acting attorney general after Trump dismissed her, the nominee has compiled a record that powerfully shows Blanche disrespects the rule of law and deploys law enforcement as a partisan weapon. Because the nominee has injured the Justice Department as deputy and acting attorney general and may have misled Congress, the panel must support nonpartisan justice by rejecting him.