{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-menendez-trial-verdict", "Booker Statement on Menendez Trial Verdict", "2024-07-16", "2024", "2024-07", "Democrat", "Senate", "NJ", "Cory A. Booker", "B001288", "www.booker.senate.gov", "booker", "https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press", "scraper", "WASHINGTON D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cThis is a dark, painful day for the people of New Jersey.\n\n\u201cRepresenting people in Congress demands the public's trust. When any elected official violates that trust, it is a betrayal of the oath we take to serve the people who\u2019ve elected us. Without that trust, our ability to do our work and perform our duties for our constituents is compromised.\n\n\u201cSenator Menendez was afforded his due process rights and mounted a full defense in a court of law, as every criminal defendant has the constitutional right to do. This verdict means that a jury of Senator Menendez\u2019s peers, sworn to be impartial, reviewed the evidence and unanimously concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that he had broken the law.\n\n\u201cI call on Senator Menendez to resign. I originally did so last fall because of the severity of the allegations against him and how they shook the public\u2019s trust. Now, with this conviction, the urgency for Senator Menendez to step down and for the governor to appoint a replacement has even more urgency.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-menendez-trial-verdict"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8842280842363834, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}