{"id":20875,"date":"2026-04-03T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-to-know-about-todd-blanche-acting-ag-after-bondi-firing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:22:07","slug":"what-to-know-about-todd-blanche-acting-ag-after-bondi-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-to-know-about-todd-blanche-acting-ag-after-bondi-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Todd Blanche, acting AG after Bondi firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Blanche will take over the Justice Department in an acting capacity following President Trump&rsquo;s ouster of Attorney General Pam Bondi.  It&rsquo;s the highest perch yet for the former New York prosecutor and white-collar defense attorney, who came into Trump&rsquo;s orbit as one of his personal lawyers until the president catapulted Blanche into the Justice Department&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5813667-todd-blanche-donald-trump-justice-department\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Blanche will take over the Justice Department in an acting capacity following President Trump&rsquo;s ouster of Attorney General Pam Bondi. It&rsquo;s the highest perch yet for the former New York prosecutor and white-collar defense attorney, who came into Trump&rsquo;s orbit as one of his personal lawyers until the president catapulted Blanche into the Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}