Trump rewards legal defense team, picks lawyer Todd Blanche as No. 2 Justice official - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Todd is an excellent attorney who will be a crucial leader in the Justice Department, fixing what has been a broken System of Justice for far too long," Trump said in a statement Thursday announcing his pick.
50% : In an email announcing his departure, he wrote: "I have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA case, and after much thought/consideration, I have decided it is the best thing for me to do and an opportunity I should not pass up." Originally from the Denver suburbs, Blanche graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn Law School. Blanche first joined the Justice Department as a paralegal in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, while in law school.
49% : Trump tabbed D. John Sauer, who successfully argued his presidential immunity case before the U.S. Supreme Court, to be the solicitor general, representing his administration before the high court.
45% : If confirmed as deputy attorney general by the Republican-led Senate, Blanche would manage the day-to-day operations of the sprawling Justice Department, which Trump has vowed to radically overhaul.
45% : Emil Bove, an ex-federal prosecutor, will be the principal associate deputy attorney general and will serve as acting deputy attorney general until Blanche is confirmed, Trump said.
38% : Trump is appointing two other members of his defense team to high-ranking Justice Department positions.
30% : Blanche represented Trump in both the 2020 election interference case in Washington and the Florida case accusing the former president of hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
28% : Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts, though his attorneys are urging the judge to overturn the guilty verdict.
24% : Blanche told colleagues at Cadwalader that he was resigning to represent Trump.
18% : Trump was accused in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
12% : Blanche has also represented Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and succeeded in getting a mortgage fraud case against him dismissed in the same New York court where Trump was convicted.

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