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Citing the case of a Navy veteran who died under a court-appointed guardian, Duckworth pressed Fleck on a VA-DOJ agreement allowing VA attorneys to initiate guardianship proceedings and declared she would oppose his confirmation.
“This is an inherent conflict of interest. The VA, the agency responsible for caring for veterans, is now also the agency empowered to ask a court to strip veterans of their legal autonomy.”
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on pending nominations, Durbin argued that Trump's attacks on judges who ruled against him reveal a demand for political fealty rather than commitment to the rule of law.
“President Trump has made it clear he believes judges appointed by him should be reliable votes for his MAGA agenda.”
Senator Klobuchar drew on her eyewitness account of the Capitol attack to question Smith about threats to law enforcement that day and the consequences of dismissing experienced prosecutors from January 6 cases.
“And then came the insurrection. Capitol Police were attacked, pepper sprayed, clubbed, and trampled.”
Schiff told Smith that Republican senators had assailed him repeatedly throughout the hearing but had not challenged the underlying facts about the January 6th attack, the Georgia phone call, or pressure on Justice Department officials.
“Mr. Smith, thank you for coming to testify today. I'm sorry that you have been so villainized and attacked today.”
At a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Golden Dome, Mark Kelly pressed Mr. Trachtenberg on whether the missile defense system could undermine strategic stability by convincing adversaries their nuclear deterrents were at risk.
“Interceptors can be defeated by countermeasures. And often when we test these things, we don't account for those. But the other issue here is deterrence is about perception.”
Lindsey Isaacs told senators a Flock camera capture of her Dodge Durango near a fatal crash scene triggered her arrest on three counts of vehicular homicide, though the state eventually declined to prosecute her.
“I later learned that a Flock automated license plate recognition camera had captured my Dodge Durango approximately two to three miles west of the crash scene.”
R. Jefferies argued that automated track inspection outperforms human walkers and supports cutting visual checks to once a week, but Cole Scandalia countered that the technology covers only 6 of 23 required defect categories and must not supplant mandatory visual inspections.
“ATI can identify up to 200% higher defects than the naked eye. And during those pilot programs, the safety outcomes were dramatic, a significantly higher safety result that occurred.”
