Dick Durbin: “It is important that this Senate functions to uphold the ethical standards of our government.”

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

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…

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

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.