A signed is displayed behind US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island as he speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on his nomination to be Attorney General, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2026. President Donald Trump's pick to be the next US attorney general -- his former personal defense lawyer Todd Blanche -- faces what is expected to be a contentious Senate nomination hearing on Wednesday. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)