Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has recently been nominated by President Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States. This position was previously held by Pam Bondi, who was dismissed on April 2, 2026, when Todd Blanche was appointed Acting Attorney General. He is currently serving as both Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General.

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Blanche first gained national prominence when he served as President Trump’s lead personal criminal defense attorney from April 2023 through mid-April 2024. The white-shoe law firm where he worked, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, objected to his representation of President Trump. Blanche chose to resign from the firm in order to represent President Trump, and we are glad that he did.

He defended President Trump in multiple cases, including the New York hush-money case during the 2024 Manhattan trial; the classified documents case, a federal prosecution brought by Jack Smith regarding the alleged retention of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida; and the federal election interference case, a Special Counsel investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Washington, D.C.

During an Interview as aired on Real America’s Voice, Mike Davis, Founder and President of the Article III Project, stated, “Todd Blanche is a bold and fearless warrior for the Constitution. Todd Blanche put everything on the line to defend President Trump against the Democrats’ unprecedented, republic-ending lawfare against President Trump.”

“Todd Blanche was in the courtrooms, in several courtrooms, defending President Trump against bogus charges…completely bogus charges. He gave up… He was a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Then Todd Blanche was at a big ‘white shoe law firm,’ and he gave that up to go defend President Trump.”

“I don’t think people understand the legal, political, and financial risks that Todd took to go do that. He has done a phenomenal job as President Trump’s Deputy Attorney General and now Acting Attorney General. He, more than anyone, has seen it from all sides. He has seen this as a federal prosecutor. He’s seen this as a defense attorney. He has seen this as the top leader in the Justice Department.”

“When you are the Deputy Attorney General, you’re the number two. You’re the chief operating officer of the entire department. You run the department. And now he is doing both. He’s the Deputy Attorney General and the Acting Attorney General because President Trump likes to give people six jobs, as Marco learned the hard way.”

In a recent press briefing regarding efforts to crack down on Medicaid fraud, Todd Blanche was asked how the fraud started. He stated, “I think it’s been going on for a very long time, and by the way, the Department of Justice has prosecuted fraud cases for decades. This isn’t a new thing that we’re doing, but what we have realized over the past several years, there were certain jurisdictions, including Minnesota, where the compliance was so lax or nonexistent that you could literally steal millions and millions of dollars with no one even checking, or nobody even checking … with nobody even investigating.”

God bless this man for his faithful and diligent work in defending President Trump. God bless him and the entire team working on prosecuting and stopping the massive fraud that has come to light throughout this nation.

In April of 2025, during a meeting of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government, Blanche stated, “Supporting the free expression of faith is not just a constitutional principle; it is something that all forms of civil government should be encouraging.” Thank God for Todd Blanche standing up and defending our Constitutional Rights as endowed by our Creator.

Blanche is 51 years of age and originally hails from the Denver suburbs. He has been married to his wife, Kristine Blanche, for 29 years. Together they have two children, son Justin and daughter Sydney.

Todd and Kristine met in college while both were studying abroad in Australia.

Kristine Blanche, PhD, runs an integrative medicine practice in Key Largo, Florida. Justin is 26 years old. Sydney is married to Jake Burgholzer and is the mother of Blaine, Todd, and Kristine’s first and only grandchild.

Todd Blanche attended Brooklyn Law School at night while working as a paralegal at the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. He graduated cum laude. His undergraduate studies were completed at American University in Washington, D.C.

His impressive background includes serving as a law clerk for federal judges Denny Chin and Joseph Bianco, who are both now serving as members of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Blanche served for eight years as a federal prosecutor in the same U.S. attorney’s office where he had started as a paralegal.

He functioned as co-chief of the office’s violent crimes unit for two years, where he oversaw about two dozen prosecutors and cases involving kidnappings, killings, and other violent crimes.

In 2014, Blanche left the U.S. attorney’s office to join the Manhattan office of the law firm WilmerHale. In September 2017, he moved to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he became a partner in the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice.

Before representing President Trump, Blanche served as counsel for Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman. In 2019, he successfully argued that a mortgage fraud case against Manafort should be dismissed on double jeopardy grounds. The case was heard in the same New York court where President Trump was later convicted.

Despite the outcome of the hush money case, President Trump was impressed by Blanche’s tenacity, his willingness to challenge witnesses and judges, and the composure he demonstrated while speaking before television cameras.

In an interview with Sean Hannity on “Hang Out with Sean Hannity”, Blanche talked about the weaponization of the Department of Justice under Obama and Biden, and that it was weaponized in the worst way. He stated that the things that were done to President Trump and the lies that the media put out during his campaign run were crimes if done purposefully, and he and the Attorney General’s office are working to prove it.

Blanche explained that the priority of the Department of Justice under the Trump administration is letting law enforcement go back to do their jobs to arrest drug dealers, arrest robbers, arrest massive fraudsters, and scammers. This was not the priority under Obama and Biden.

Blanche stated that “virtually anyone associated with President Trump had to get a criminal defense attorney. If you look around the room now in the Oval Office, there is a bunch of us…a bunch of criminal defense attorneys because they all had to get involved in the administration because of how weaponized it was. That can never happen, and we’re not talking about targeting one person, oh…you know….the secretary of defense under…you know…under President Trump won… If you were a cabinet secretary, you had to hire a criminal defense lawyer because Biden was coming after you, and…and not just hire one as preventative. You were getting subpoenas. You were testifying with the Grand Jury.”

“President Trump had a conversation with his criminal defense attorney who I won’t name him, but he is a great lawyer, as anybody does when they get a subpoena…a privileged communication… lawyer and client, and Jack Smith’s team rolled right into a judge who hated the President and said we think we need that we should get that conversation. And the judge said Oh yeah, sounds good to me. It’s crazy.”

In reviewing the left-wing media headlines related to Blanche, the smearing and bashing persist, with one headline even calling him a Trump Goon.

In his interview with Sean Hannity, they discussed a whole range of topics from the Russian Hoax to the legal conspiracy against President Trump to declassifying the Epstein and JFK Archives, as well as the cracking down on $100 billion in healthcare fraud. Other hot-button areas that were addressed included suing sanctuary cities for obstruction, alleged Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) bank fraud, the future of federal law enforcement, national security leaks versus voter integrity, and the SAVE Act.

The weight this man carries is tremendous. In his role as Acting Attorney General, he oversees the work of over 100,000 dedicated employees who fulfill the Department of Justice’s mission at Main Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Criminal and National Security Divisions, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices.

We, as intercessors, need to go before the Lord on behalf of Todd Blanche.

• Pray for Blanche to know Christ and follow Him.
• Pray for angelic protection for Todd Blanche and his family.
• Pray that Blanche’s Senate confirmation hearings go well with a favorable outcome and that any false accusations are exposed and countered.
• Pray that Blanche and the Department of Justice hear and honor God and honor the Constitution as it was written and intended.
• Pray that the lies that the corrupt media spews are debunked, and the truth reigns supreme with justice being served.
• Pray that righteousness and justice prevail in the Department of Justice.
• Pray that evil is exposed, revealed, and prosecuted.
• Pray for Divine strategy, wisdom, and discernment in every case that the DOJ is prosecuting and investigating.
• Pray that the DOJ can successfully expose and prosecute all fraud, abuse, and evil illegal weaponization.
• Pray that any nefarious actors and deceivers are exposed, prosecuted as necessary, and dismissed.
• Pray for an iron dome hedge of protection around the Trump administration and the DOJ.
• Pray for holy boldness, courage, perseverance, tenacity, and steadfastness to multiply in Blanche and the DOJ.

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April Walker loves God and seeks to serve Him in all she does. She is a proud mom of a 19-year old son, a PA State Co-leader for IFA, a former School Board Director, an organizer for NDOP and ASHP events, a candidate for the GOP Committee for Carbon County, an occupational Therapist, and a vocalist. She feels that writing for and working with IFA brings all her passions together. Photo Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.