Senate Republicans have no excuse for dragging their feet on Todd Blanche. As President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Blanche represents a direct challenge to the weaponized Justice Department that spent years targeting conservatives while shielding the administrative state. Wavering voices like Susan Collins risk handing Democrats another lever to preserve that power. The Constitution assigns the Senate a narrow role of advice and consent, not perpetual second-guessing of a president’s core executive appointments. An attorney general who respects original limits on federal power and refuses to invent new crimes against political opponents is precisely what limited government demands after years of lawfare. Voters delivered a clear mandate to dismantle the deep state’s legal apparatus. Any Republican who treats Blanche’s confirmation as optional is choosing institutional inertia over constitutional restoration.