Todd Blanche takes over justice department after Pam Bondi sacking – US politics live

Trump announced deputy attorney general, who was his former personal attorney, would act up until permanent replacement is confirmedSign up for the Breaking News US emailPam Bondi was Trump’s chief enforcer when it came to going after his perceived political foes.As my colleague Sam Levine writes, she “oversaw purges of career employees who had been assigned to work on the criminal cases against Trump as well as scores of career lawyers with irreplaceable expertise. She also oversaw politically motivated prosecutions against Trump’s political enemies, including the former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general, Letitia James.”