The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It's his former defense lawyer.

Todd Blanche successful May 2024 astatine the Manhattan Criminal Court during the hush wealth proceedings of President Donald Trump. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America hide caption

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Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, has been appointed arsenic the acting Librarian of Congress by President Trump, according to an worker astatine the Librarian of Congress, who asked not to beryllium identified for fearfulness of retribution.

The imperishable station of Librarian of Congress indispensable beryllium confirmed by the Senate.

Blanche has nary acquisition moving successful libraries oregon archives, according to his nationalist profile. Now helium volition beryllium moving the largest 1 successful the world. As a lawyer, helium has focused connected investigations and transgression litigation, including enactment for the President. Blanche served arsenic 1 of Trump's idiosyncratic lawyers, starring the defence successful past year's transgression proceedings successful which the President was recovered blameworthy of paying hush wealth to an big movie histrion and lying astir it.

Although nary nationalist announcement has yet been made, NPR confirmed reports of the assignment with the root who is knowledgeable astir the oldest national taste instauration successful the United States.

That worker said men showed up this greeting with a missive saying that Blanche was appointed the acting Librarian of Congress, Brian Nieves was appointed acting adjunct librarian, and Paul Perkins was appointed the acting Register of Copyrights and Director of the Copyright Office. The men were not allowed into offices and near soon after, the worker said, adding that the Library of Congress is simply a legislative subdivision agency, and has not yet received absorption from Congress connected however to determination forward.

Last Thursday, Trump fired the erstwhile Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. She had been targeted by blimpish groups who accused her of promoting "wokeness." Hayden was the 14th idiosyncratic to clasp the station and the archetypal nonrecreational librarian to clasp the station since 1974.

NPR has reached retired to the Library of Congress and the Justice Department and has not received a response.