WASHINGTON (CN) — Todd Blanche on Wednesday embarked on a crucial step toward becoming President Donald Trump’s next attorney general as he sought to sway the Senate Judiciary Committee and win over a group of key Republican lawmakers skeptical of his leadership.
But it was an uphill battle from the start for Blanche — deputy attorney general and the Justice Department’s acting head since the spring — as Democrats dialed in on his loyalty to the president, his oversight of a controversial government slush fund and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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