Dick Durbin: “I urge all my colleagues to speak out against this ban and the President’s continued assault on free press.”

Before appointing a person to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, shouldn’t we take a close look at their background?

Mr. Chairman, there are many things we still can do… One of them is not to expedite nominees who have not been carefully vetted. I hope we don’t accept that as a standard in this Committee.

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.

Why? Because the Republicans are losing the majority and they’re afraid that unqualified MAGA loyalists won’t withstand close scrutiny when Democrats are in the majority.