At Confirmation Hearing, Booker Presses Blanche on Independence, Epstein Survivors, and DOJ's Targeting of the President's Political Opponents
| Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, confronted Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Trump's former personal defense lawyer, during Blanche's confirmation hearing for Attorney General. Booker's questioning highlighted why Blanche cannot be trusted to run a Justice Department that answers to the Constitution and the American people instead of President Trump, his former client.
Booker: "This isn't a job interview. You've sat before this committee before. You've made promises time and time again before you got the job—first as Deputy Attorney General and now as Acting Attorney General. So this isn't a confirmation hearing. This is more of a performance review. And clearly, when it comes to the treatment of Epstein victims, when it comes to politically motivated prosecutions, when it comes to avoiding the appearance of impropriety with corporations, you failed." Booker: "You've chosen Trump over truth” and “corporations over the Constitution." Booker: "The attorney general's client is not the president. It's the American people. If your record and your testimony today should show us anything, it should show you, in my opinion, that you should not be confirmed to this job." WATCH FULL LINE OF QUESTIONING HERE. ### |
