Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸

Veterans advocate: Voting as a veteran is harder than it should be. Absentee voting is essential but increasingly under threat.

Constitutional law expert: The federal executive doesn’t and can’t control elections. States and local governments do… within a framework Congress sets and courts enforce.

Sen. DURBIN: It cost nearly $2 MILLION to protect 68,000 votes. Is this part of Republicans’ strategy to suppress the vote?

NC Supreme Court Justice RIGGS: My race cost $5 million before Election Day and $2 million after. It’s a cynical ploy to tie up resources and time.

Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Trump Administration has removed nearly all senior civil servants in the civil rights section. What do we lose when that happens?

Former AG HOLDER: It’s supposed to stand as a bulwark for the people’s right to vote. The White House is afraid of the people.

Former AG HOLDER: Put simply, gerrymandering is pivotal to how Republicans have held onto power in Congress and in state legislatures across the country.

NC Supreme Court Justice RIGGS: My race was the last 2024 race in the country to be certified. Despite Republican presidential and Democratic gubernatorial candidates winning statewide, my opponent filed post-election litigation alleging thousands of ballots should be discounted.

Republicans see the writing on the wall. Tanking approval ratings, illegal mass deportations, misguided trade wars… the “Golden Age” isn’t so golden.

Gerrymandering is their only path to holding power.

It’s a loser mentality.

Election denier and Big Lie architect Jeffrey Clark should never practice law again.

BREAKING: The DC Bar just recommended Jeffrey Clark, an election denier and architect of Donald Trump’s Big Lie, be disbarred, following our investigation.

White House officials are heavily involved in the push for Texas Republicans to gerrymander their district lines.

It’s illegal for executive branch employees to use their positions for partisan activities.

The Special Counsel must investigate.

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, PADILLA, WHITEHOUSE call for a Special Counsel investigation into senior Trump political appointees’ push for partisan gerrymandering, a potential violation of the Hatch Act.

Listen to this Trump judicial nominee completely struggle to defend his anti-abortion advocacy.

Sen. DURBIN called him on it. 🔥

Receipts.

A Trump judicial nominee just claimed ignorance during his hearing... but it doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Chad Meredith reportedly signed off on a pardon for a man who pretended to be a U.S. Marshal, robbed a pregnant woman, and killed her husband.

Sen. WELCH: “Seriously!?”

Sen. BOOKER: Mike Davis is your friend and recommended you. He says Democrats are “relentless and evil.” Do you agree?

Trump nominee: I can’t comment.

Booker: You won’t say?

Nominee: *dodges*

Booker: You can’t say party affiliation doesn’t make you evil?

Nominee: *dodges*

Sen. SCHIFF: Do you believe the emoluments clause would apply to any president?

Nominee: Yes.

Schiff: Would the founders have subscribed to a president accepting a $100M+ gift from a foreign state?

Nominee: *dodges*

Receipts.

Sen. DURBIN: Do you still believe in gender roles?

Trump nominee: I believed that the relationship between men and women were complementary.

Durbin: What about now?

Nominee: I can’t say…

Receipts.

Sen. HIRONO: You are an originalist, correct?

Trump nominee: *agrees*

(Eric Tung’s philosophy—as he himself described in March—doesn’t recognize a right to abortion, same sex marriage, and others.)

Sen. PADILLA: Is this you holding a sign that says UNION NO?

Trump nominee: Yes.

Padilla: How can working men and women come into your courtroom and feel like they’re getting a fair shake?

Nominee: *platitude*

Padilla: Do you recant it?

Nominee: *dodges*

Sen. PADILLA: Donald Trump has rewarded those loyal to him over the rule of law. That’s true of his picks for Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, FBI Director. Now he’s going around the Senate for U.S. Attorneys in New Jersey, New York, and now California.

BREAKING: A FOURTH whistleblower has come forward with information about Emil Bove, a Trump judicial nominee who Senate Republicans rubberstamped yesterday.

Bove helped orchestrate the blanket pardons of violent January 6 rioters.

Senate Republicans just confirmed an unprincipled nominee to the Justice Department.

Sen. WHITEHOUSE read back Elliot Gaiser *own words* against Donald Trump... and he desperately tried to dodge. 🔥

“An astonishing weakness for flattery”

“A short-fingered vulgarian candidate”

Sen. DURBIN: Have we forgotten Selma? We cannot afford to ignore what is happening in plain sight. We must act—not just to protect the future, but to honor the legacy of those who fought to secure the ballot.

Sen. PADILLA: The Trump Administration isn't focused on protecting your right to vote. They’re focused on denying it. We can’t wait until election season to act.

The sacred right to vote is under attack.

Republican elected officials—and now federal institutions under Trump—are trying to restrict ballot access.

They’re even using the very entities meant to *protect* that right.

Democrats are holding a spotlight forum on it now.

Chad Meredith, a Trump judicial nominee, apparently helped pardon violent offenders.

He reportedly worked on a pardon for Patrick Baker, who pretended to be a U.S. Marshal, robbed a pregnant woman, and killed her husband.

Baker’s brother held a fundraiser for Meredith’s boss.

William Mercer, a Trump judicial nominee, is no stranger to the committee.

He’s a failed candidate for a top Justice Department job… because he played a key role in a Bush-era scandal that involved firing U.S. Attorneys for political purposes.

We’re hearing from four more Trump judicial nominees today.

It’s clear that they’ve been handpicked for their extreme MAGA views—not their dedication to the rule of law.