Elie Honig: Every A.G. Before Todd Blanche Has ‘Worked Hard to Protect DoJ from Politics and from the President’

RUSH EXCERPT:

HONIG: “Well, Caitlin, technically, Todd Blanche is correct. The U.S. constitution does not say DoJ shall be independent from politics or the president. However, the way that Todd Blanche has chosen to run his Justice Department as a non-independent political arm of the president is a break in the chain of history. You can go back to Watergate. You can go back before Watergate. And every ag, Republican and democratic appointee alike has worked hard to protect DoJ from politics and from the president. And that‘s not just because of high minded academic theory. That‘s because the Justice Department is the only civilian agency in our federal government that has the awe inspiring power to strip someone of their liberty, to literally lock someone up behind bars. And blanche has chosen to give that away. And by the way, this strategy of carrying out the president‘s personal gripes and political gripes has failed at every turn, every one of these political cases, from Letitia James to Cassidy Hutchinson to Jim Comey to Jerome Powell to Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, all of them have been rejected by judges, juries or grand juries. So if this is going to be Todd‘s legacy, Todd Blanche his legacy, then that‘s of his own choosing”