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I’m sure they can refer to Justice Department to go down that path?

If you're sure, why does your reply end in a question mark?

Your issue is with a person using spoken English in a text medium.

No way to convey intonation in text so people often use a question mark to convey it.

It's not an intonation thing, the idiom is "Surely (conditionally true statement)?" and uppost was verbing for some reason