Blanche Faces DISBARMENT as NOMINATION UNRAVELS!!! - Legal AF

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In this episode of Legal AF, Ray Brescia talks to Brad Wendel, the Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law at Cornell Law School about the ethical complaints filed against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in the weeks before his expected confirmation hearing before the Senate Judicial Committee on July 15th and 16th.

Professor Wendel’s teaches and researches at the intersection of law, philosophy, and ethics and he is the author of Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Accountability, Toleration, and Regret published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Brescia and Wendel discuss the ethical complaints filed against Blanche in New York State that raise serious questions about his fitness to practice law and explore some of the possible scenarios should the New York State courts take disciplinary action against Blanche, even if he gets confirmed by the U.S. Senate. - 07/13/2026.

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1. MaddowBlog-Judge slams Trump-IRS 'settlement,' refers attorney for possible disciplinary actions

The president probably thought his $10 billion case against the IRS was over. That was before a federal court found his lawyers acted in “bad faith.”

A federal judge set out to investigate “grievous allegations” in the Trump-IRS case.

She apparently did not like what she discovered, concluding that Trump and his lawyers acted “in bad faith” and filed a civil suit “for an improper purpose.”
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— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-07-13T17:37:12.625Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-irs-settlement-sanctions-lawyers-leaked-tax-returns

By now, Donald Trump has probably grown accustomed to legal setbacks in court, though his case against the IRS has started to backfire in ways the president didn’t see coming. The Associated Press reported:

A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose” as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams amounts to a stinging rebuke of the Republican president’s lawsuit, characterizing it as an exercise in self-dealing in which he sued an entity that is effectively under his control.

.....More than a month later, she apparently did not like what she discovered, concluding that Trump and his lawyers acted “in bad faith” and filed a civil suit “for an improper purpose.”

“The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law,” Williams wrote.

The judge also prohibited the parties from even referring to it as a “settlement.”

Just as notably, as CNBC reported, Williams “referred Trump’s lawyer in the lawsuit, Alejandro Brito, to the Florida bar for consideration on whether Brito should be disciplined in light of the findings in the new order.” The judge also “ordered that a copy of her ruling be mailed to the State Bar of New York, of which Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a member, as well as to the District of Columbia Bar, of which Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward is a member.”

I am looking forward to Blanche's confirmation hearing. One of the questions may be to find out if a disbarred attorney can be Attorney General