Sheldon Whitehouse

Claims · 48 wordsLast, there is a group called Just Security, which keeps track of what goes on in Federal courts.¹ This is a binder of the cases that they have put together in which a Federal judge is harshly criticizing the integrity or the competence of the Department of Justice. Reasoning · 6 wordsThis binder, frankly, should not exist. Claims · 12 wordsThis is two-sided, by the way. These many cases--it is just astounding. Procedure · 14 wordsI am not going to ask that this all be put into the Record.Procedure Claims · 56 wordsBut I will note that if you look at justsecurity.org, you can look at their report published on March 19, 2026.²³ It gets regularly updated. And if you want to go through it, you can see truly appalling criticisms by Federal judges of every appointment background against incompetence and dishonesty by the Blanche Department of Justice. Reasoning · 24 wordsWhere that really hits the road is with something called the presumption of regularity. You might not know what the presumption of regularity is, Claims · 233 wordsbut it is a benefit that the government enjoys--that as a matter of policy, the Federal judiciary has determined that the Federal Government is generally so honest and competent that its proceedings will be given the presumption of regularity that the benefit of the doubt will go to the Department of Justice lawyers and to the government Agencies involved.⁴ Unless the adversary can prove otherwise, courts will presume that the government has done the right thing. And over and over again, we have seen judges say that presumption of regularity is now shot because there is so much dishonesty and incompetence coming out of the Department of Justice.Unearned certainty That is unprecedented. There are hundreds of other reasons to vote against this most reprehensible Attorney General nominee in American history, Unearned certaintybut the very specific ones about his complicity in the Epstein files screwup and coverup, his being the first senior Department of Justice official in the history of the United States to face a fraud on the courts inquiry, ⁵Unearned certaintywhere the judge already decided that the proceeding was a sham and that the parties were in collusion with each other and that the whole thing was done in bad faith, ⁶and that that is not an isolated incident--that is part of a pattern of incompetence and dishonesty out of the Department of Justice that has never before happened in the United States of America.Logical leapUnearned certainty Positioning · 23 wordsIf my Republican colleagues want to get behind that--if they are cool with an Attorney General who has that record--that is on you.Positioning Procedure · 16 wordsThere being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:Procedure