Dick Durbin: “I may be leaving the Senate in a few months, but I am not leaving this fight [for Dreamers].”

Under the Committee’s precedents, these two nominees can’t be confirmed before the end of this Congress…So, Republicans are breaking the rules to jam through these nominees and avoid on obvious thing—on January 3, there will be a new…

To take a lifetime appointment for a federal district court, which is primarily a trial driven court, or at least preparation for trial, and not have any experience with the things I have asked you here, really raises the question of why…

The majority is also violating numerous longstanding [Committee] standards in a desperate attempt to confirm the [un]qualified loyalists to lifetime appointments before Democrats take the majority.

Unfortunately, it appears our Republican colleagues, who I thought learned a lesson from last Tuesday’s election, did not get the message…