Dick Durbin: “Mr. Chairman, there are many things we still can do… One of them is not to expedite nominees who have not been carefully…”

What we are seeing here is an effort to scramble quickly to resurrect defeated candidates in Texas and others to fill positions on the federal district court before Senator Talarico is sworn in on January 3.

It’s not too late to change course. If [Republicans] are listening to the American people, I would suggest that you abandon these efforts [and instead] hold our regular DOJ oversight hearings; that we hold a hearing finally with Big Tech…

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

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…