The Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department

Contact the Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department, the New York body that decides whether Todd Blanche keeps his law license, and the Presiding Justice of the court that appoints that committee. Tell them, in your own words, that in 2025 the committee answered the complaints against Emil Bove by sending them to a Justice Department office that answered to Bove’s boss, Todd Blanche, and that you expect the committee to follow its own rules on the complaint against Blanche: investigate it, and do not punt it to the Department of Justice, who they know will do nothing.

Attorney Grievance Committee, First Judicial Department, Jorge Dopico, Chief Attorney, 180 Maiden Lane, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10038. Phone (212) 401-0800. Email AD1-AGC-newcomplaints@nycourts.gov.

Presiding Justice Dianne T. Renwick, Appellate Division, First Department, 27 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Phone (212) 340-0400.

Call, email, or print and mail. Identical messages get counted once, and form letters do not work. Do not copy my text. Say who you are, why you care, and what you want them to do.

If you are admitted to practice law in New York, file your own complaint against Todd Blanche, registration number 4192456, with the committee at the address above, signed, with one copy by email and one by mail, and send a second copy to the Committee on Grievances of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, c/o Julie Allsman, Counsel to the Committee, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007, julie_allsman@nysd.uscourts.gov. Reference the complaints filed May 27 and June 22, 2026 and ask that yours be consolidated with them. Attach Judge Sullivan’s August 6 order.

Points to cover on the call or in the letter:

1. Your name and where you live.

2. That you are writing about the complaint against Attorney General Todd Blanche, New York registration number 4192456, for disobeying a federal court order in Phang v. Blanche.

3. That in 2025 the committee sent the complaints against Emil Bove to the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, an office that answered to Bove’s boss, Todd Blanche, and took no further action.

4. That the committee’s own rules give it the authority to investigate, and that the same Justice Department office now answers to Blanche directly.

5. What you want: an investigation under the committee’s rules, and no referral to the Department of Justice.

6. Why this matters to you, in your own words.

7. A request for a written response.