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Adding to Chuck Schumer’s comments, New Mexico’s Democratic representative Melanie Stansbury said the confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general represents a “dark moment” for the nation’s traditional system of checks and balances. She said this is because the justice department “is being weaponized for retribution, shielding the administration from accountability, and actively obstructing the Epstein case.” “There is no doubt that these 50 votes will go down in history. To every survivor and every person who cares about justice: this is not the end. We will continue fighting to hold them accountable,” Stanbsury added in her post on X, in reference to the concerns raised about Blanche’s handling of the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents. The US constitution’s creation of the three branches of government, with the legislative branch being the third, was intended to ensure checks and balances so that no branch had too much power.
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Adding to Chuck Schumer’s comments, New Mexico’s Democratic representative Melanie Stansbury said the confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general represents a “dark moment” for the nation’s traditional system of checks and balances. She said this is because the justice department “is being weaponized for retribution, shielding the administration from accountability, and actively obstructing the Epstein case.” “There is no doubt that these 50 votes will go down in history. To every survivor and every person who cares about justice: this is not the end. We will continue fighting to hold them accountable,” Stanbsury added in her post on X, in reference to the concerns raised about Blanche’s handling of the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents. The US constitution’s creation of the three branches of government, with the legislative branch being the third, was intended to ensure checks and balances so that no branch had too much power.
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