Todd Blanche to sit for confirmation hearing in bid for attorney general

Trump’s nominee will face tough questions over purging of career prosecutors, Epstein files and moreTodd Blanche will appear in front of the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, as one of Donald Trump’s most loyal and powerful enforcers in government aims to be confirmed as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.Few officials have been more instrumental in Trump’s crusade to transform the federal government in his second term than Blanche. Trump tapped Blanche, his former personal attorney, to serve as the deputy attorney general, the justice department’s No 2 position, at the start of his term, where he steered the department’s