Durbin Questions Nominees at Today's Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judicial Nominations

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"It has been two years or so since you last sat at this table for review by the Committee. You’ve had life experience since then as a District Court Judge in the Northern District of Illinois. What surprised you about that experience?

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When you consider all the cases and orders that you have authored and been involved in, I would imagine that in some cases, it is a matter of almost first experience in an aspect of the law or some legal precedents. How often do you run into that?

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Ms. Alexakis, tell us a bit about your civil rights and hate crimes coordination work.

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Ms. Lanham, this global following of yours, would you like to explain it?

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Ms. Martinez, as practicing attorneys, many of us reach our own judgement about the temperament and skills of the sitting judges we appear before. You have been on both sides of the bench now. What is your observation on the temperament of judges?

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Ms. Sooknanan, I was struck… that you came to the United States at the age of 16… That’s a bold adventure for a 16-year-old. Did you have family here that you visited with or lived with?

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You will have the responsibility for naturalization ceremonies when you ascend to the bench, and I hope you do. What do you want to leave as your message to these young people coming to the United States?”

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