They Don’t Care If ICE Kills People

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has his first day of hearings for his nomination to the top Justice Department job today. He’ll spend most of the day answering questions—or, more precisely, not answering questions, because the rules the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee imposed on this hearing (ten minutes of questioning per senator only) basically guarantee that Blanche can blather, platitudinize, and filibuster his way through the whole thing. Happy Wednesday.A demonstrator carries a “JUSTICE FOR LORENZO” sign at a protest in San Francisco on July 14, 2026 in response to two fatal shootings by ICE agents. (Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)by William KristolAfter the killings in January in Minneapolis of Renée Good and Alex Pretti sparked widespread public outrage, a