Todd Blanche, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, was challenged by Democratic senators on his ability to lead the U.S. Justice Department free from the demands of the president in the first of two days of confirmation hearings on Wednesday.

Todd Blanche faces his biggest public test Wednesday in his bid to serve as President Donald Trump’s fourth confirmed attorney general: a Senate Judiciary Committee with a pair of…

At his confirmation hearing, the acting AG will reckon with the damage he has wrought on a once-independent institution.

At the beginning of Trump's second term, Blanche was confirmed by the Senate to serve as second in command at the Justice Department.