101 judges at all different levels, federal and state judges, are calling for the New York State Bar to revoke the law license of Todd Blanch These 101 former federal and state court judges say that Blanch is a menace to the legal profession and he needs to have his license immediately revoked This was a powerful 69page bar complaint that was submitted by these top former judges and they go into numerous topics that they say Todd Blanch violated his ethical responsibilities Let's take a look at their main contentions Number one, they say that the settlement with the IRS, Trump, the IRS, and entering into a baseless and flawed settlement agreement and the creation of an unlawful anti- weapization weaponization fund and granting an unprecedented general release of liability to Trump and his family is patently unlawful and unethical and any person who followed the standard of care having a law license would know that They say the settlement agreement violated DOJ policy and prejudice the United States litigation provisions The so-called anti-weaponization fund violates fundamental constitutional and statutory requirements The attorney general order provided Trump and numerous others with an exceptional and unprecedented global release of liability, all meriting Todd Blanch to lose his law license Then they get into conflicts of interest, participation in prior matters worked on while in private practice, personal financial interests, personal loyalty, prejudice, and bias, dishonest and deceitful conduct, potential use of the judicial system to collusively whitewash the settlement agreement potential conspiracy to interfere with tax administration and facilitate tax fraud, prejuditial conduct regarding the administration of justice, the abuse of the DOJ to target personal political opponents of Donald Trump, James Comey, Kilmer Abrego Garcia, and additional matters Also, these 101 retired federal judges get into the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the failure to timely comply with the disclosure requirements in the law, the unlawful withholding and unlawful redaction of documents, releasing sensitive victim information, careless and inconsistent redaction and removal of documents, failure to publish justification of redaction as required by law they were required to publish a privilege log and Blanch refused to do that So in this 69page letter they go into all of those issues right here and let me just give you a little flavor of it how it starts Dear Grievance Committee members, Democracy Defenders Fund, lawyers defending American democracy and 101 undersigned former judges respectfully submit this complaint pursuant to title 22 of the New York compiled codes of rules and regulations requesting that this grievous commission initiate an investigation into Todd Blanch goes on to talk about Todd Blanch has been the deputy attorney general before becoming the acting attorney general They talked about his confirmation hearing while he was uh seeking the position of deputy AG and that he promised that he would not uh engage in coverups for Donald Trump despite the fact that he was Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney They go into uh his behavior in these various uh cases and uh and they said, you know, look, this is beyond the pale of anything that would normally lead to somebody losing their legal license And so, if there are any standards at all, Todd Blanch needs to have his legal license revoked I want to bring in Harry Litman from the Talking Feds YouTube channel, Substack, and Podcast Now, Harry, this isn't just a random bar complaint, although if it was a random bar complaint, the state bar should seriously look into it as well This is 101 retired federal and state court judges in 69 pages meticulously laying out the New York rules of professional responsibility The DOJ rules, which you're of course familiar with as a former United States attorney in Pennsylvania and as a top DOJ personnel lawyer within the main justice They go through it meticulously and and and Harry, if in a normal situation, someone did 1,000th of this conduct, you would lose your license It's just a fact I mean, I I think about when I was a practicing lawyer, if I did any resembling this, it wouldn't even be a question You know, you'd be referred to the state bar that day by the federal judge You would have you you'd get a letter right away that the bar was investigating you you would have to show up right away and they would expedite and fasttrack that And so I guess here Harry, now that he is moving towards confirmation to be the attorney general, um, and he's still the acting attorney general, will that scare off the New York State Bar for now Does this get kind of stayed and pushed into the future when there's a reckoning of all of this behavior I think no matter what, there will be a reckoning I think Todd Blanch becomes one of the faces of all of this in the future I think he knows that and I think it's a very scary proposition because he's so far in it right now that the only way to go is more in it because any pulling back, you know, he's made a full bet on fascism and authoritarian That's it And so to the extent democracy saved, he's the first person who's going to be, I think, on the list of people to be held accountable by, you know, by by people who care about law and order What do you make of it, Harry? >> Unless he has life tenure, of course, as Emil Bo did So, look, there's certain to be a reckoning That reckoning is called the federal confirmation hearing of Todd Blanch And this document which is really uh blistering and lands explosively in the middle of the Department of Justice has an eye on that as well Understand the context here Ben, this is against Todd Blanch, bar member of New York So they every bar member of New York and really all around the country have these cannons of responsibility Now, what Blanch has really done wrong is he's completely uh shredded the take care clause, completely um eviscerated all the norms of DOJ The abomination that he is has everything to do with his complete disloyalty to his function But this is engineered uh to accord with the rules sort of be um you know uh laid over the rules of New York State So what are those rules You've named them You can't have a conflict of interest That's for you or me with any kind of regular litigation, but it's also for Todd Blanch representing the Department of Justice and his former client Donald Trump You can't do that And uh you can't do it's a general provision in all the states Dishonest conduct That's for you and me If you know we called up and and uh said we were someone who we weren't, that could be a bar problem But it's also with Todd Blanch to the extent he makes misrepresentations There are um others They're all kind of positioned within the New York code And this is really sticks in the crow of DOJ because as of now everybody in the department that would include the attorney general must be a member in good standing of a state bar As far as we know Blanch is New York and New York only and the disciplinary process of those state bars goes forward and indeed there's a federal law that says it goes forward but the DOJ is trying to fight that but they haven't done it yet So if the New York authorities here validate the facts, forget about even the penalty, but validate the facts, that then really is a steamroller coming in to the confirmation proceedings We have 101 judges who have said and and they very carefully I mean you could just say every single day he uh violates his duties but they've chosen the three big ticket items that will be the big ticket items of confirmation First the slush fund, second the reprisal prosecutions and third Epstein and they've um compartmentalized each of them within the boundaries of New York rules, but the facts are the facts So, if the New York authorities investigate and even if they don't, 101 judges that makes him Cruella Deville on steroids, right, have have put this paper in You can be certain that everybody on the judiciary committee and all of their staff have seen this And it does It's not like a random complaint. 101 judges that has real heft So just on its own, it affects the confirmation dynamic And I have to uh think knowing a little bit about its providence, that's a big part of it Nothing nothing illegitimate about that And then we'll see Also, yes, he could be in peril with New York uh states But the big the big question for Todd Blanch is can he get confirmed If he's not, there could be more trouble in New York State, etc But, uh, this I think will in the first instance be kind of exhibit one again. 101 former judges in the confirmation opposition to confirmation of Todd Blanch. >> You know, look, I think Matt Gates is more confirmable than Todd Blanch You know, I hate to I mean, they're both horrific human beings, >> but you know, you know, yeah, I hear you. >> You know, it it they're they're horrific I mean, what Todd Blanch has done, >> um, if you can confirm Todd Blanch, >> quite literally an enemy of the DOJ, >> it would literally like electing Putin as the president of the United Oh, wait