"I Love You, Sir." The Four Words That Should Cost Todd Blanche His Law License

The Acting Attorney General is breaking the most basic ethics rules and the country is supposed to pretend nothing is wrong

I have spent forty years inside the American legal system. I have seen good prosecutors and bad ones, honest judges and lazy ones, lawyers who fought hard for their clients and lawyers who cut corners. I have never seen the chief federal law enforcement officer of the United States openly defy a written ethics directive from his own department’s top eth…