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Mazie K. Hirono: “At a time when DOJ has lost thousands of career attorneys with millennia of combined experience, and when DOJ’s…”

On the recordAugust 5, 2026
At a time when DOJ has lost thousands of career attorneys with millennia of combined experience, and when DOJ’s independence from politics is no longer in existence, I cannot vote in favor of someone whose actions so clearly make him ineligible to serve as Attorney General—even of a department as compromised as this Department of Justice, which basically is a Department of Retribution and Revenge.

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Senator Hirono's statement on Todd Blanche's nomination.

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