This DOJ Is Redefining Who the Enemy Is: Barbara L. McQuade

“It’s a war.”

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the number two official at the US Department of Justice, made that statement last week not about his agency’s efforts to fight drug cartels or terrorism, but about the DOJ’s battle against the judiciary. The remark could just as easily be the motto of the Trump Justice Department.

During a meeting of the Federalist Society, an organization of conservative lawyers and law students, Blanche made a recruitment pitch to join the agency’s crusade. Calling for lawyers who are “hungry and thirsty,” Blanche said, “We need you, because it is a war, and it’s something ...