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101 FORMER JUDGES FILE ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST TODD BLANCHE AND I HAVE THE ACTUAL COMPLAINT
by Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. – Only me, under my own name, never AI – never anonymous, giving you the facts and the truth.
Yesterday afternoon 101 former judges, along with a couple of organizations, filed a formal ethics complaint with the New York State bar against Todd Blanche. This is a *73-page* complaint, requesting that the New York State bar initiate an investigation into Blanche and, upon making a determination that he violated his ethical duties as required by the bar, apply appropriate sanctions which may include suspension or being disbarred.
You see, despite all of the tropes out there about lawyers, we lawyers *actually* have a duty to uphold the law, to *not* bring frivolous lawsuits, to *not* bring retaliatory lawsuits, and to generally behave, as officers of the Court, with decorum.
I happen to take that whole “officer of the Court” thing very seriously.
Unfortunately Blanche places party of 1 over his ethical duties as an attorney.
Fortunately there are a whole lot of people, including 101 former judges, who will hold his feet to the fire. (If you’re wondering why it’s always *former* judges who are filing amicus briefs and ethics complaints and why the sitting judges aren’t stepping up, well a) the sitting judges *are* stepping up, with their rulings, and b) I would imagine a sitting judge isn’t going to risk being removed for joining an ethics complaint, especially when they can do more good from the bench (I have *always* said that the best way to fight something is from within).)
The complaint (included for Notes from the Front members) explains that part of the basis for this complaint is that “Mr. Blanche has initiated, induced, participated in, and overseen an ever-growing list of frivolous investigations and prosecutions perpetrated for the apparent purpose of harassing and injuring people and institutions President Trump perceives as his foes. This complaint covers two examples: On May 22, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee concluded that the Department of Justice could not overcome the presumption of vindictive prosecution against Kilmar Ábrego Garcia. Among other things, the Court noted that while he was Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Blanche made several “remarkable statements [that] could directly establish that the motivations for Ábrego’s criminal charges stem from his exercise of his constitutional and statutory rights.” Second, in April 2026, Mr. Blanche oversaw the indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey for sharing an Instagram post of seashells arranged to form 86 47.”
Keep in mind that this is the same bar that disbarred Rudy Giuliani, so I generally like the odds, although when you throw into the mix that Blanche is a *sitting* U.S. Attorney General, well, all bets are off. Honestly I think it could either way – I think the NYS bar is very likely to sanction or even disbar him, but I don’t know whether there are rules that they may be bound to follow when it’s a sitting federal attorney general.
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