Dick Durbin: “Before appointing a person to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, shouldn’t we take a close look at their…”

A lifetime appointment for a federal district trial judge, I just don’t see how you put it together.

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.

In the waning days of this Congress, in light of the last [week’s] election, the Chairman is violating numerous longstanding Committee norms that Republicans and Democratic Chairs alike have followed for years, without consent from the…

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