MS NOW host Rachel Maddow wants Attorney General Todd Blanche impeached, and her new book proposes a rule that would have kept him out of the Justice Department in the first place.
Maddow made her call Sunday evening onstage with fellow MS NOW host Chris Hayes before a sold-out crowd at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium. She was promoting “Department of Fate,” a history of the Justice Department from its founding in 1870 to the Trump era, and cited Blanche’s interview with convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, The Advocate reported.
“I mean, Todd Blanche should be impeached,” Maddow said, adding that she was speaking “not as a news anchor, but as the author of a new book about the Department of Justice.”
Among the reforms in the book, Maddow proposes barring a president’s former personal lawyers and campaign workers from serving in the department, according to The Advocate. Blanche was Trump’s personal criminal defense attorney before becoming his attorney general.
Weeks earlier, in an interview with The Advocate, Maddow delivered a chilling verdict on the department.
“It’s essentially dead and will need to be refounded from the ground up, which is what this book is about,” she said.
In a separate October interview with the Shepherd Express, Maddow drew a line between Trump’s two terms, saying that in the second, he has “gotten rid of the Justice Department as we knew it.”
Her call echoes Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is in line to chair the House Judiciary Committee. Raskin said on MS NOW last week that Blanche “could possibly face impeachment hearings.”
With Democrats projected to hold roughly 255 House seats after last week’s midterm sweep, the party will gain subpoena power and the ability to launch the kind of investigations into Trump’s administration, family and businesses that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has warned about.
Blanche was narrowly confirmed after Trump fired Pam Bondi in April. He drew fresh criticism last week after saying the Justice Department would serve as legal defense for White House chief of staff Stephen Miller.
Impeaching Blanche would break new ground, as no attorney general has ever been impeached, and only two Cabinet officials in U.S. history have been: Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876 and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024.
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