WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
[WASHINGTON, DC] - Today, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, were joined by three former federal prosecutors to raise alarm over the ongoing refusal of Trump Administration judicial nominees to acknowledge the results of the 2020 election or admit that what happened on January 6, 2021, was an attack on the Capitol.
The three prosecutors - Michael Romano, Sean Murphy, and Brendan Ballou - worked on cases relating to violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Earlier today, they joined a group of twelve former federal prosecutors who all worked on cases relating to the viol...