Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during a hearing on the Department of Justice, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2026.(Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

The commitment is almost certainly not enforceable, for several reasons.

As usual, Dan McLaughlin said all I wanted to say, and then some, in his good-riddance post on the Trump “Anti-Weaponization” fund’s demise. As he, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal’s editors have urged, I hope Congress follows through with legislation to ban use of taxpayer money for such a fund.

It would be nice to be able to take Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche at his word, especially given that President Trump has reportedly decided to nominate him to be the full-fledged AG. But let’s face it: Blanche is being nominated because he’s shown he can be relied ...

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