Trump calls Todd Blanche's acting librarian of the congress

Washington (AP) – Deputy Attorney General Todd BlancheThe Donald Trump represented on Monday during his criminal proceedings in 2024. Blanche replaces the long -time librarian Carla Hayden, whom the White House released last week because they criticized the conservatives that they are driving a “Woke” agenda.

On Monday, too, two more Trump appointments in the library unsuccessfully tried to enter the copyright office with the knowledge of the incident. Brian Nieves, deputy chief of staff and Senior Counsel in Blanche's office, was appointed deputy librarian, the spokesman for the Ministry of Justice, Chad Gilmartin. And Paul Perkins, deputy attorney in General and the Veteran Ministry of Justice, is now the acting register of copyright office and director of the Copyright Office and replaces Shira Perlmutter, who excluded the Trump administration last weekend.

Nieves and Perkins were in the hallway in front of the office of copyright, which is part of the congress library, but could not occur according to the source without access to badge. After a brief discussion with library officials and the US Capitol police who had contacted the library, the commissioners left voluntarily. The source was not entitled to comment publicly and asked not to be identified.

The Capitol police said that nobody was excluded from the building or accompanied and otherwise asked the congress library.

The Associated Press received an internal memo from Robert Randolph Newlen, who served as a reigning librarian, and said that the congress with the white house via Blanche's appointment was “engaged” and that the library has not yet “received instruction from the congress”.

The effects of Trump's installation of a tight ally as a librarian of the congress could be far -reaching.

For example, the librarian was able to create the legislator's inquiries to the Congress Research Service, which is normally only observed by the office and the CRS itself, such a tool of the congress that was not justified and spoke about the condition of anonymity.

The impartial agency is largely known as Capitol Hill's Think tank and offers analyzes that should help legislators in the legislative procedure. However, the Democrats are already concerned about the type of information that could access the civil servants appointed by Trumpf in a process that is usually confidential between CRS and legislators.

Senior House Democrats also mentioned on Monday that the data held by the Congress library that have a huge archive for books and historical documents cannot be properly transferred to the executive department, including civil servants from Trump Adviser Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency.

Unauthorized exchange of information “Could the independence of the legislative and the ability of the congress members to perform their constitutional duties”, according to the letter, which was signed by legislators such as New York Rep. You ask for a general investigation by the inspector.

Since Return to the office In January, Trump flushed civil servants, which he considered in contrast to him and his Republican agenda. Hayden, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2015 and confirmed the following year with a 74-18 votes in the Senate, pearl mother as head of the copyright office in 2020.

Shortly before her shooting, Perlmother's office released a highly expected report in which the legality of the use of copyrighted work was questioned by the technology industry in order to “train” their artificial intelligence systems and to compete with the works produced by humans where they were trained.

Tech companies have argued that their AI training practices are protected by the doctrine “Fair Use”, which enables limited use of copyrighted materials, e.g. B. for teaching, research or the conversion of the copyrighted work into something else. Perlmutter's report questioned these assumptions and argues that “the commercial use of huge grues of copyrighted work on the production of expressive content that compete in existing markets compete with them, especially when this is achieved through illegal access, goes beyond the specified limits of fair use.”

The reporting obtained as a “preliminary publication” was quickly-Schleuge quickly waves in legal circles after it was published online at the end of last week, and praised by Creator who questioned the tech industry in court, and criticizes a trade group in the technology industry.

It was the third and last part of a year -long study that pearl mother began in 2023 with the intention of advising the congress and others about whether reforms are necessary. The report did not require state intervention and its differentiated findings in the numerous copyright infringement lawsuits that are currently pending against technology companies.

After shooting pearl mother on Saturday, also from Trump's supporters, attention to the report increased.

Mike Davis, a lawyer who regularly defends Trump, has published an alarm moji on social media and warned: “Now Tech -Bros will try to steal the copyrights of the Creators for AI profits. This is 100% unacceptable.”

Blanche was appointed official of the Ministry of Justice as Ministry of Justice after serving in two cases that the department submitted during the administration of President Joe Biden, as Trump's defense lawyer. He is a former public prosecutor who was a key figure in his New York Hush Money process, who was in Trump in Trump's defense team A conviction of 34 criminal acts.

The dismissal of Hayden was widely condemned by Democrats and many who were working with Hayden, the first black person and the first woman, the librarian of the congress. Ada Limon, who served as a US poet Laaureate for three years after Hayden chose her in 2022. said last week That “Dr. Carla Hayden is the nicest, brightest and most generous librarian in the congress that we could have hoped for as a nation.”

The creators and occupation of the “Dead Outlaw” musical nominated by Tony have canceled a planned visit to the library and made an explanation in which Hayden was “violent lawyer for the preservation of the cultural memory of America and as a great advocate of the Broadway Community”.

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Italie reported from New York. Associated Press Writers Alanna Durkin Reicher and Eric Tucker in Washington and Matt O'Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.