“Blanche is playing to an audience of one.”
So observed Dave Aronberg during a Substack Live conversation earlier today about Attorney General Todd Blanche’s threats to investigate Democratic lawmakers who try to hold Donald Trump’s allies accountable. Trump demanded action, and Blanche paid lip service to it, before quickly retreating from that language.
During a wide-ranging conversation, Dave Aronberg and I discussed the type of investigations Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) may have had in mind when he warned Trump officials to “lawyer up.” (Learn more about the possible congressional investigation into now-former chief of staff Susie Wiles here.)
We also unpacked the significance of the fourth high-profile resignation from the Trump Justice Department in less than a week and delved into the articles of impeachment that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) filed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Totaling 34-pages, the impeachment resolution is comprised of eight articles. Massie accused Hegseth of three violations of the War Powers Resolution in Iran, ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties, engaging in extrajudicial killings, suppressing free speech, kidnapping a foreign sovereign leader (i.e. Nicolás Maduro), and leading an unlawful war in Yemen.
All Rise News will have more detailed coverage of the impeachment effort this week.
Read the resolution here.
