The United States Justice Department under President Donald Trump has undergone an evolution, of sorts, this month with the ouster of Pam Bondi as attorney general, to be replaced by her top deputy — and fellow former Trump lawyer — Todd Blanche.
But as a pair of court filings Tuesday illustrated, the Blanche regime at DOJ may end up being an even less restrained version of what emerged during the first year of Trump’s second presidency: A traditionally independent agency increasingly unmoored by restrictions around political calculations and unshielded from the personal whims of the president.
