The Trump Administration’s agenda is clear: prioritize white-only Afrikaners as refugees and disregard the millions of men, women, and children from around the world who are trying to escape horrific violence and persecution.
Durbin criticizes the Trump Administration's refugee policies.
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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.
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.
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…
Before appointing a person to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, shouldn’t we take a close look at their background?
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