{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-questions-ag-nominee-blanche-on-anti-weaponization-fund-mail-order-abortion-drugs/", "Cornyn Questions AG Nominee Blanche on Anti-Weaponization Fund, Mail-Order Abortion Drugs", "2026-07-21", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "John Cornyn", "C001056", "www.cornyn.senate.gov", "cornyn", "https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today during the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s hearing on the nomination of Todd Blanche to be U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) questioned him on the Settlement Agreement in Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, including the anti-weaponization fund and IRS audit immunity, and secured a commitment from Acting Attorney General Blanche to respond to his letter on the intentions of the administration to protect life and end the unlawful Biden-era policy that removed in-person dispensing requirements for the dangerous chemical abortion drug, mifepristone. Excerpts are below, and video can be found here.\n\nOn the Settlement Agreement in Trump v. Internal Revenue Service (IRS):\n\nCORNYN: \u201cThe Attorney General has the hardest job in Washington, D.C., because you are at the same time a member of the President\u2019s Cabinet, subject to dismissal of whatever the President wants for any reason or no reason at all, but then you also have a duty as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, and I think it\u2019s a very, very difficult balance.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s so much that\u2019s unusual about this.\u201d\n\n\u201cIs the Settlement Agreement enforceable as a contract by the parties?\u201d\n\nBLANCHE: \u201cWell, yes, it\u2019s an enforceable document, so I suppose if President Trump\u2019s counsel sought to enforce it, that they potentially could.\u201d\n\nCORNYN: \u201cIncluding the weaponization fund?\u201d\n\nBLANCHE: \u201cWell, they could try to enforce the contract. They can\u2019t force the Department of Justice to move forward with the weaponization fund. They could potentially say that, I suppose, that we breached by not moving forward.\u201d\n\nCORNYN: \u201cTo be clear, the President of the United States, who was the plaintiff in this lawsuit, has not agreed in writing to delete the weaponization fund, and there\u2019s no guarantee that he or one of the other plaintiffs might raise that issue by way of a breach of contract lawsuit in the future.\u201d\n\n\u2026\n\nCORNYN: \u201cThis purports to release lawfare or weaponization, and/or weaponization. Those aren\u2019t legal terms of art, are they?\u201d\n\nBLANCHE: \u201cI think they are just legal terms of art.\u201d\n\nCORNYN: \u201cHave they defined in any case or any statute?\u201d\n\nBLANCHE: \u201cNot that I\u2019m aware of. No.\u201d\n\nCORNYN: \u201cSo, they\u2019re not a legal term of art\u2026 we don\u2019t know what that covers.\u201d\n\nOn the Mail-Order Abortion Lawsuit, Louisiana v. FDA:\n\nCORNYN: \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s administration changed the Trump policy and allowed the administration of this abortion chemical abortion drug without any medical guidance whatsoever, and as you know, I\u2019ve written a letter. Senator Tillis and I sent a letter yesterday.\u201d\n\n\u201cI would appreciate it if you would respond to this letter for the record about the intentions of the administration. If President Trump is the most pro-life President, this ought to be a pretty easy call because women are hurt as a result of side effects \u2013 heavy bleeding, prolonged potentially infection or sepsis, incomplete abortion, other complications \u2013 when this is being sold through the mail or through online prescription. Will you do that for me?\u201d\n\nBLANCHE: \u201cYes, Senator. I will.\u201d", 1, "2026-07-22T07:34:13Z", "2026-07-22T07:35:16Z"]], "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.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-questions-ag-nominee-blanche-on-anti-weaponization-fund-mail-order-abortion-drugs/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9087400287389755, "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"}