D.C. crime down big time after First Year of Crime Task Force

Trump's D.C. crime task force marks one year with more than 16,000 arrests

The Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force just hit its first anniversary with over 16,000 arrests, a record that backers call proof the federal crackdown is working and critics say came at enormous cost.

Attorney General Todd Blanche marked the milestone with a statement crediting President Trump's leadership for what he called "extraordinary results" in the nation's capital.

The task force, which launched August 11, 2025, brought together the Department of Justice, the U.S. Marshals Service, the National Guard, and local police in a sustained law enforcement surge across Washington, D.C. The numbers released to Fox News Digital ahead of the anniversary paint a picture of a city-wide operation that went far beyond routine policing.

Among those 16,000-plus arrests: 35 homicide suspects taken into custody, more than 100 known gang members arrested, over 3,200 narcotics arrests, and nearly 2,000 illegal guns pulled off the streets. The task force also located 25 missing children and returned them home.

Overall crime in Washington, D.C. dropped significantly, with recent annual metrics showing total violent crime decreasing by roughly 29% to 35% and property crime decreasing by about 23%, powered by steep declines in motor vehicle thefts and robberies.

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Murkowski and Collins voted "no" on Todd Blanche

UPDATE: Last night, Todd Blanche was confirmed

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Murkowski announces opposition to Todd Blanche for attorney general, leaving confirmation on a razor's edge

Sen. Lisa Murkowski declared she will vote against confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general, joining Sen. Susan Collins and putting the nomination's fate in the hands of a single undecided Republican.

Murkowski, the Alaska Republican, posted her decision on X, acknowledging that Blanche had impressed her personally and made solid decisions as acting attorney general, then listing a series of concerns she said made confirmation impossible.

She praised his willingness to visit Alaska's rural communities and called him "decent and capable," but said the Justice Department's trajectory under the current administration left her without confidence that Blanche would serve as an independent check on executive power.

Her opposition lands at the worst possible moment for the White House. Collins, the Maine Republican, had already announced her own "no" vote. Sen. Mitch McConnell remains absent from the Senate.

NBC News reported that a third Republican defection would be enough to sink the nomination outright, given that Democrats are expected to vote as a bloc against Blanche.

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Senate Resolution: Ghislane Maxwell will not get a pardon

Senate votes unanimously to oppose any pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Every senator on the floor backed a resolution opposing clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, a rare bipartisan rebuke aimed squarely at the possibility that the convicted sex trafficker could walk free.

Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Democrat, brought the non-binding resolution to the Senate floor on Wednesday, and not a single senator objected. The measure passed by unanimous consent, putting the full chamber on record against any presidential pardon, commutation, or other form of executive clemency for Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

The timing was deliberate. Rosen introduced the resolution one day before the Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to advance the nomination of Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General whom President Trump has tapped to remain in the role permanently.

Blanche interviewed Maxwell for two days last summer and produced written testimony in which Maxwell stated she had never seen Trump engage in improper conduct.

Bipartisan agreement in the Senate is rare enough to be newsworthy on its own. Cross-party votes on resolutions tend to happen only when the alternative, being seen as the lone holdout, carries more risk than the vote itself.

On the question of pardoning a woman who helped traffic children, that calculation was apparently simple enough for every senator in the chamber.

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Two disgruntled Republicans holding up Todd Blanche's Nomination

Senate panel delays vote on Blanche's nomination as key Republicans withhold support

Todd Blanche's nomination to become attorney general stalled Wednesday as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote after key Republicans demanded more assurances about the settlement of President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 15. During Blanche's tenure as acting Attorney General the Justice Department has been under scrutiny for pushing President Trump's 1.8 billion dollar "anti-weaponization" fund and its handling of the Epstein files.

Law Takeaways from Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing for attorney general:

The Senate Judiciary Committee had been expected to vote Thursday on whether to advance Blanche's nomination to the full chamber. But resistance from two Republican senators on the committee who could block Blanche's nomination threw his confirmation into doubt.

A spokesperson for the committee said in a statement Wednesday night that the vote would be postponed "as work continues to secure sufficient support." The delay came after hours of negotiations between the Justice Department and Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis over the controversial settlement that afforded Trump and members of his family protection from tax audits.

Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have thrown the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche into serious doubt by forcing a last-minute delay of a critical Senate Judiciary Committee vote. Why?

Because Cornyn was not endorsed by Trump and Tillis was called a "loser" by Trump, both senators are retiring and not returning to Congress next year. They are acting independently of party leadership to demand written guarantees from the Trump administration regarding a controversial Justice Department settlement.

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Trump now may withdraw the Blanche nomination until Cornyn and Tillis are out of office.

U.S. Pardon Attorney gets grilled by Senator Hawley

Elizabeth Oyer, fired by Todd Blanche

Elizabeth Oyer was appointed as the U.S. Pardon Attorney in April 2022 by President Joe Biden

GOP senators confront former Biden pardon attorney over clemency push for Dylann Roof, federal death row inmates

Republican senators turned a confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche into a sustained confrontation with the former Biden administration pardon attorney who recommended clemency for all 40 federal death row inmates, including the man who walked into a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015 and shot nine Black parishioners to death during Bible study.

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri led the charge Thursday on Capitol Hill, pressing Elizabeth Oyer over a 73-page memorandum she authored in November 2024 that urged President Joe Biden to spare every inmate on the federal death row.

Democrats had called Oyer as their chief witness against Blanche's nomination. By the time Republicans finished questioning her, the witness they summoned had become the hearing's central liability.

The exchange, reported by Fox News Digital, laid bare a question that should trouble every American who believes victims matter more than their killers:

Hawley went straight at the most indefensible names on Oyer's list. Dylann Roof murdered nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Robert Bowers killed 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carried out the Boston Marathon bombing. Oyer recommended clemency for all three.

How did a senior Justice Department official produce a 73-page clemency recommendation that, according to a DOJ report cited during the hearing, devoted just three paragraphs to the grievances of victims' families?

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Shifty Schiff came after Blanche--wrongly accused

Todd Blanche Fires Back at Adam Schiff: ‘You Can’t Accuse Me… and Then Lie’

Todd Blanche had a tense moment with Sen. Adam Schiff during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.

Blanche, President Trump’s pick for attorney general, appeared before the panel as senators pressed him on his record, his work at the Justice Department, and his past role as Trump’s personal attorney.

Trump announced last month that he had nominated Blanche to serve as attorney general. The night before the hearing, Trump praised Blanche and urged the Senate to confirm him.

“Todd Blanche is doing a PHENOMENAL job as Acting Attorney General of the United States. Under Todd’s incredible leadership at DOJ, Murder is down to the LOWEST level since 1900, and we just saw the biggest one year drop in RECORDED HISTORY,” Trump said on Tuesday evening.

Schiff used part of his questioning to focus on volume II of Jack Smith’s report involving Trump. He accused Blanche of having a conflict of interest because Blanche previously represented Trump before joining the Justice Department.

Schiff also suggested Blanche played a role in keeping that portion of Smith’s report from being released to the public. Blanche did not let the accusation slide.

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The SPLC's $800 Million Racket Just Got a Lot More Personal

Kash Patel Just Exposed Something About the SPLCs Top Spy That Changes Everything

The Southern Poverty Law Center spent decades telling donors their money was fighting white supremacy.

Now a June 2nd superseding indictment has revealed that the SPLC's own intelligence chief had a secret that goes far deeper than donor fraud. And the personal details buried in that indictment make the $3 million fraud look like the small part of the story.

The federal indictment unsealed in April charged the SPLC with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy for secretly funneling over $3 million in donor cash to leaders inside extremist groups – including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and the National Socialist Party of America.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it plainly: "The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence."

FBI Director Kash Patel went further.

Patel was blunt about what the evidence showed: the SPLC took donor money earmarked to fight extremism and handed it directly to the people running those groups – then used those same groups to commit crimes.

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Trump announced Todd Blanche nomination

Trump to Nominate Todd Blanche as US Attorney General

President Trump announced Wednesday night that he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general.

He made the announcement at a private White House dinner in the Rose Garden.

Trump adviser Dan Scavino posted a video of the announcement on X. “President Trump has a great relationship with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and is very pleased with the job he’s doing so far.”

“Todd Blanche is an American patriot who fearlessly fought against the Democrats’ unprecedented lawfare campaign on behalf of President Trump. The President’s entire team at the Department of Justice is doing a great job advocating for sanity, law and order, and policies that keep Americans safe.

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Bondi shifted blame to her Deputy

Bondi concedes DOJ made 'redaction errors' in Epstein files, shifts responsibility to her deputy

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi sat for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Friday and acknowledged that the Justice Department made "redaction errors" during its release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files, but placed the blame squarely on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the man who now runs the department she left two months ago.

The admission, delivered in a transcribed but unsworn session that Democrats protested was neither videotaped nor conducted under oath, marks the first time Bondi has publicly conceded specific failures in a process she once promised would bring full transparency to one of the most disturbing sex-trafficking cases in American history.

USA Today reported that Bondi told lawmakers she had delegated oversight of the document review to Blanche and did not personally conduct it.

In her opening statement, she framed the release as "an enormously complicated and labor-intensive process" involving roughly 3 million documents, a stack she once compared to the height of the Eiffel Tower.

The Washington Examiner noted that Bondi told lawmakers she didn't lead every aspect of the Epstein files review, reinforcing her posture of distance from the operational details.

She claimed the DOJ had "produced everything required" by the Epstein Files Transparency Act and that staffers did "our very best in the time frame allotted by the legislation to protect victims."

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Expanding the Immigration Court

Trump Admin Takes Significant Step To Increase Deportations

The Trump administration is moving to further accelerate its deportation agenda by significantly expanding the nation’s immigration court system, according to a report from The Daily Wire.

In its latest effort, the Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has hired 82 immigration judges — the largest single-year class in agency history. The additions bring the total number of immigration judges in the United States to nearly 700.

“The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule [of] law in our nation’s immigration system,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

“Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history,” Blanche added. “This could only happen thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership and commitment to securing our borders. I also applaud EOIR’s leadership team for helping facilitate these hiring efforts and recruiting highly qualified and talented personnel in record time.”

The incoming class consists of 77 permanent judges and five temporary appointments.

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Kash Patel Says FBI Has Evidence 2020 Election Was Stolen

Kash Patel Just Announced Arrests Are Coming in the 2020 Election Case

He Named the Counties Where FBI Already Seized Ballots

James Comey got his target letter last week.

Now Kash Patel is telling America that Comey is not the only one who should be worried.

What Patel said on live television Saturday has the people who ran the 2020 election machine reaching for their lawyers right now. Maria Bartiromo asked Patel a simple question on Fox News Saturday morning: what is the FBI actually doing about 2020?

Patel did not hedge. "We are going to be making arrests," he said. "And it's coming soon." No qualifiers. No "ongoing investigation" dodge.

He went further – confirming the FBI has completed its evidence gathering and is now working with prosecutors and Attorney General Todd Blanche to build what he described as a "conspiracy case" tied to the 2020 presidential election.

"We have the information that backs President Trump's claim," Patel told Bartiromo. "We're working with our prosecutors, the Department of Justice, and the Attorney General Todd Blanche, and we are going to be making arrests, and it's coming – and I promise you, it's coming soon."

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It's no wonder Democrats want Kash fired.

Who is Todd Blanche?

Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, taps Todd Blanche as acting replacement

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday, ending a tenure marked by mounting frustration over the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and a string of politically sensitive prosecutions that never materialized.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of Trump's former personal lawyers, will step in as acting attorney general while the White House weighs a permanent replacement. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is reportedly under consideration for the job.

Blanche served as the Deputy Attorney General, acting as the second-in-command behind Bondi at the Justice Department over the past year. [American Almanac.com]

Before joining the leadership at the Justice Department, Blanche was a federal prosecutor. He has close professional ties to the president through his past legal work, having served as Trump’s criminal defence attorney in two federal cases brought during the Biden administration, as well as being a key figure on Trump’s defense team during his New York ‘hush money’ case.

Upon his appointment as acting attorney general, Blanche posted a statement on X thanking Trump for the trust and opportunity, while praising Bondi for leading with “strength and conviction.”

He stated that under his leadership, the department will “continue backing the blue (a reference to law enforcement officials), enforcing the law, and doing everything in our power to keep America safe.”
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