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Stacy Young

Government Affairs Director for the Southern Utah Home Builders Association (SUHBA) and host of The Housing Advocate podcast.

Aug 3, 2026

4:52
Okay, I wanna throw this to you, and I'm just gonna ask you what your top line takeaways are from Todd Blanche's failure to launch as Donald Trump's permanent attorney general.
5:06
I think it's fair to say that Todd Blanche has been the worst head of DOJ in the department's hundred and fifty-five-year history.
5:16
He has attacked the rule of law.
5:19
He does that on just about a daily basis.
5:22
He has attacked the Justice Department as an institution, and the thing we focus most on is that he has attacked DOJ's workforce.
5:31
And DOJ's...
5:33
DOJ is its career workforce.
8:11
And you wrote a great piece that you posted a few days ago, and the piece is titled, "A Weird Thing Happened After twelve hundred Plus DOJ Alumni Signed a Letter Opposing Todd Blanche." Can you tell us a little bit about the origins of that petition, twelve hundred plus public servants, attorneys from DOJ, former attorneys signed a letter opposing Blanche's nomination? And what is the weird thing that happened in the wake of that?
12:51
What did it take to bring that coalition together, and what was the central concern?
12:55
You know, it, it wasn't quite as hard as you'd think in considering that it's hard to get [chuckles] more than two or three DOJ lawyers to agree on anything.
13:04
We have many thousands of DOJ alumni in our network at this point.
13:10
We drafted a letter.
13:12
We sent it to the alumni in our network.
13:14
We encouraged them to sign, and they did in droves.
13:18
And this was an opportunity for them to sign something that they couldn't edit, which, you know, is, is asking a lot.
14:59
Stacy, what does this letter tell us that career employees are worried about that the public may not be seeing?

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