Dick Durbin: “So, as I wind down my time in Congress, let me implore upon President Trump and this new Congress: don’t give up on…”

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…

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.

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…

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.