***media Advisory for Wednesday, JULY 22, 2026 at 2:30PM ET***

WASHINGTON, D.C . — On Wednesday, July 22, at 2:30 PM ET, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) will convene a spotlight forum with Senate Judiciary Committee members to examine the Department of Justice’s abandonment of the rule of law, its failure to deliver justice for Epstein survivors, and the erosion of institutional independence under an Acting Attorney General who answers to the President rather than the Constitution. The forum will feature testimony from former senior department officials, human trafficking and survivors’ rights experts, and legal experts. WHO: U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) WITNESSES: Perry A. Carbone , former Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Chief of the White Plains Division, and Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of New Jersey. Served as Co-Chief in White Plains with Todd Blanche. Liz Stein, human trafficking survivor, advocate, and one of the most prominent public voices among survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell who recently met with Blanche. Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and the founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), a nonpartisan interdisciplinary institute affiliated with Penn Law. Peter Carr, Director of Communications, Justice Connection; former Public Information Officer and Acting Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice, and spokesman for Special Counsels Jack Smith and Robert Mueller. WHEN: Wednesday, July 22, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET WHERE: United States Senate Dirksen Senate Office Building Room G-50 Livestream link available here. Press Gaggle to Follow the Forum PLEASE RSVP TO: press_@booker.senate.gov