Durbin: If Republicans Were Serious About Violent Crime, They Would Get Serious About The January 6 Insurrection

Statement

Responding to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today condemned the Republican Party's hypocrisy on combating violent crime.

"We are going through regular--sometimes daily, sometimes weekly--lectures from the Republicans about who's soft on crime," Durbin said. "Every single nominee that comes from the Biden White House is subject to being challenged as to whether they're going to "defund the police'… These same Republicans asking these pointed questions to nominees are nowhere to be found when it comes to discussing January 6, 2021. In fact, many of them were cheerleaders and apologists for the very demonstrators who came into this United States Capitol."

Durbin continued, "These were violent individuals who are being called to task for having assaulted this Capitol, broken down the windows and the doors,… forcing the Vice President of the United States, and the Senators there that day--and I was one of them--to exit by the backdoor for their lives. And here we have this "we're not soft on crime' message from Republicans who are making excuses [for the insurrectionists]."

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