{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-scrutinizes-federal-judges-apparent-ai-use-in-drafting-error-ridden-rulings", "Grassley Scrutinizes Federal Judges\u2019 Apparent AI Use in Drafting Error-Ridden Rulings", "2025-10-06", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to two federal judges regarding their alleged use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to draft court orders with little to no human verification. Grassley\u2019s oversight inquiry follows public reporting that U.S. District of Mississippi Judge Henry T. Wingate and U.S. District of New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier Neals issued court orders containing serious factual inaccuracies, prompting allegations of AI use.\n\n\u201cAs Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I am committed to safeguarding litigants\u2019 rights and ensuring that every party in federal court receives fair treatment and careful review by the Article III judges confirmed by the Senate,\u201d Grassley wrote.\n\n\u201cNo less than the attorneys who appear before them, judges must be held to the highest standards of integrity, candor, and factual accuracy. Indeed, Article III judges should be held to a higher standard, given the binding force of their rulings on the rights and obligations of litigants before them,\u201d Grassley continued.\n\nGrassley is asking Wingate and Neals explain whether they, their law clerks or any court staff used generative AI \u2013 or entered non-public case information into generative AI tools \u2013 in preparing their decisions. Further, Grassley called on the district judges to re-docket their original orders to preserve a transparent history of the Courts\u2019 actions.\n\nRead Grassley\u2019s letter to Wingate HERE and letter to Neals HERE.\n\nBackground:\n\nOn July 20, 2025, Wingate issued a temporary restraining order pausing a state law that prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools. The defendants, represented by the Attorney General of Mississippi, then filed a motion raising concerns about serious inaccuracies in the order, including: (1) naming plaintiffs and defendants that weren\u2019t parties in the case; (2) misquoting state law; (3) making factually inaccurate statements that weren\u2019t supported by the record; and (4) referencing four individuals who don\u2019t appear in the case. In response to this motion, Wingate replaced his order with a backdated \u201ccorrected\u201d version, removed the original order from the public docket and declined to explain the errors, dismissing the mistakes as \u201cclerical.\u201d\n\nOn July 23, 2025, Neals withdrew his decision in a biopharma securities case after defendants\u2019 counsel identified instances where the Court: (1) attributed inaccurate quotes to defendants; (2) relied on quotes attributed to decisions that didn\u2019t actually contain such quotes; and (3) misstated the outcomes of cited cases \u2013 indicating that motions to dismiss were denied when, in reality, they were granted. Additional reporting notes that \u201ca person familiar with the matter\u201d explained \u201cthat a temporary assistant\u201d in Neals\u2019 court had \u201cused an artificial intelligence platform\u201d in drafting the original decision, and \u201cthat the opinion was inadvertently issued before a review process was able to catch errors introduced by AI.\u201d\n\nThe Senate Judiciary Committee has broad oversight and legislative jurisdiction over civil and criminal judicial proceedings, the federal courts, federal judges and other related matters. Substantive errors, like those found in the decisions of Wingate and Neals, cast doubt on the Judiciary\u2019s deliberative process and raise legitimate concerns about the accuracy of courts\u2019 decisions.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-scrutinizes-federal-judges-apparent-ai-use-in-drafting-error-ridden-rulings"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.625114120543003, "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"}