I can't square that decision with the actual danger that women and police officers face from armed domestic abusers, and I don't believe the Founders of this Nation would've wanted courts to simply ignore this danger when applying the Constitution they wrote.
Durbin criticized a court decision that undermines protections against domestic violence.
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You can’t survive in politics unless you’re optimistic. You’ve got to believe that even though you face a setback or you don’t have all the laws you need, that tomorrow will be better.
To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.
Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.
These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.
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