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Trump’s attorney general pick has exactly one qualification

Todd Blanche is President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. He’ll need to be confirmed by the Senate. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images In May 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, arrived at an ICE detention facility in his New Jersey city and asked for a tour. Though he was initially let inside the facility’s gate, he was soon confronted by about a dozen federal law enforcement officers and asked to leave. And so he did. For a moment, that seemed like it would be the end of this incident, but then one of the officers had a phone call. A video, later submitted to a federal...