U.S. Department of Justice and Rule of Law

President Trump has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting attorney general; Blanche says only Trump knows the reasons for Bondi's removal and that the president did not share them with him. Blanche — a former Trump personal lawyer who ran day-to-day DOJ operations under Bondi — pledged an aggressive fraud crackdown, announcing a new National Fraud Enforcement Division and saying the DOJ is pursuing more than 8,000 fraud cases he claims could involve roughly $1 trillion in annual taxpayer losses. He also highlighted recent enforcement wins totaling more than $500 million and said the division will coordinate with Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force while urging the department to move on from the Epstein files controversy.