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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

The President believes that she should have a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court, and it's the job of this body to evaluate that recommendation on its merits.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

If it's pay to play and checks for millions anonymously delivered will get you into the room to decide who is going to be on the Supreme Court, we got a problem.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

We value freedom and respect your democracy.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

She's a fair and impartial jurist with a fidelity to the law above all else.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

History has proven that speeches don't have to be eternal to be immortal.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

Every American must believe that the Court is going to be impartial.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

I have been looking forward to this day since President Biden announced your nomination in February.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

As Dr. King said that day, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

Will you protect the rights of Americans to speak, to say unpopular ideas?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

Will a Justice protect the rights of the people, the rights of State legislatures?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

I am not going to be party to turning over this information and endangering the life of an innocent person for a political quest to find more information.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

Partially it is, Senator. To be honest with you, it is.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

The decisions of the Court line up in an astonishingly clear pattern with the interests of big Republican dark money donors.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

This process is broken, but it's a product of a broader brokenness in the erosion of our constitutional structure.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

I noticed a little surprise in your reaction and I was surprised by the allegation.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Mar 20, 2022

A good judge must understand that his or her job is not to legislate from the bench and read in their preferred policy outcomes into statutes.

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