If you are confirmed after this truncated and concealed process, there will always be an asterisk after your name, 'appointed by a President named as an unindicted co-conspirator after the vast majority of documents relating to the most instructive period of his life were concealed.'
Dick Durbin: “If you are confirmed after this truncated and concealed process, there will always be an asterisk after your name…”
On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
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Durbin warns that Kavanaugh's confirmation process is flawed and will carry a stigma.
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