The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Wednesday on the nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general. He was deputy AG from March 2025 to April 2026, when he assumed the AG position in an acting capacity after the ouster of then-AG Pam Bondi. The children of this country need a champion who will fight the growing sexual exploitation crisis targeting them. Blanche can be that champion.Specifically, however, Blanche must fulfill two legal obligations that his predecessors of both parties neglected. First, Congress in 2008 unanimously passed the PROTECT Our Children Act, which requires the attorney general to “create and implement a National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction” and to submit it to Congress by Oct. 13, 2009. Then-Attorney General Eric Holder did not do so until August 2010, nearly a year later.The law also requires the AG to submit an updated strategy to Congress “by February 1 of every second thereafter.” Here’s the sad tale of non-compliance: Holder never submitted the reports due in 2011 or 2013; Attorney General Loretta Lynch submitted the report due in 2015 more than a year late; Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr never submitted the reports due in 2017 and 2019; Attorney General Merrick Garland submitted the report due in 2023 nearly six months late; Attorney General Pam Bondi never submitted the report due last year.