Todd Blanche

88th Attorney General of the United States — Department of Justice

Signature issue: Federal law enforcement — the Justice Department after the Bondi firing

Scoreboard tally

Wins, pending items, and setbacks on this profile are tallied from published scoreboard entries — never set by hand. The tally begins with the first reviewed weekly entry that scores this official.

Role status — October 2026: Blanche is the incumbent Attorney General, the 88th to hold the office (justice.gov biography). His path ran through the deputy’s office: Deputy Attorney General from March 6, 2025, then acting Attorney General from April 2, 2026 — the day Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired — until the Senate confirmed him on August 8, 2026, by 50–49, and he was sworn in on August 10, 2026. Status dot is yellow: the narrowest possible confirmation margin, at the end of a four-month acting tenure that began with a firing, is a contested start by any reading of the record; the research pass carried no single oversight-criticism item against his own conduct, and none is asserted here.

The turnover itself is part of this chronicle’s record. Bondi’s removal on April 2, 2026 made the Justice Department the site of the administration’s most senior cabinet firing to that point, and Blanche — the number two — inherited the department the same day. (An early report that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin would succeed Bondi was superseded and is not carried forward.) His confirmation as the permanent Attorney General in August 2026 closed a four-month vacancy-in-fact at the top of federal law enforcement.

Verified channels:

Official-role X: @AGToddBlanche (secondary-sourced — see audit note; justice.gov names no handle)
Agency site: justice.gov (official biography verified there)

Video sources: MODERATE. Blanche’s video record is institutional: Justice Department and White House channels carry his announcements and press appearances, and C-SPAN carries his testimony. Full-remarks search order for this site: White House → C-SPAN → committee → agency.

Why he matters to this chronicle: Blanche owns the Justice & Crime category of the scoreboard, and his profile is where the administration’s law-enforcement record — prosecutions, priorities, and the politics of the Bondi firing and its aftermath — is scored. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sits inside his department, so his record and Director Patel’s are read together.

Sources (Oct 2026): Research Cluster A (2026-10-18), citing the justice.gov official biography (Deputy AG March 6, 2025; acting AG; sworn as AG August 10, 2026) and the Senate confirmation record (August 8, 2026, 50–49); Audit Sprint B (2026-10-18) on his X handle’s sourcing.