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Oct. 23, 2019 Tweet - "While the House is busy passing legislation to address the most pressing issues facing the American people, Senate Republicans are focused almost exclusively on rubber-stamping President Trump's unqualified, ideological judicial nominees. This week, it's Justin Walker of KY." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 23, 2019 Tweet - "Nominees for lifetime appointments to federal judgeships should know their way around a courtroom. There are plenty of experienced attorneys in the Second Circuit -- so why did the WH pick Steven Menashi, their own in-house lawyer, when he has literally never argued in court?" Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 22, 2019 Tweet - "Trump judicial nominee Steven Menashi has never tried a case, argued an appeal, or conducted a deposition. Instead, he's been working with Betsy DeVos & Stephen Miller to help carry out their partisan agendas. He's entirely unfit for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 22, 2019 Pallone and Schakowsky on FTC's Sunday Riley Settlement Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
Oct. 18, 2019 Senators Durbin, Wyden, Hirono, Rose and Assistant Speaker Lujan Stand with DACA SCOTUS Plaintiffs and Immigration Advocates to Call on Congress to Protect DREAMERS Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Oct. 17, 2019 Durbin Stands With DACA Supreme Court Plaintiffs To Call On Congress To Protect Dreamers Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 17, 2019 Judicial Travel Accountability Act Unveiled In Congress Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Oct. 17, 2019 Tweet - "Of all the attorneys in Kentucky, couldn't Republicans find one who is qualified to be a federal trial judge? Justin Walker clearly isn't. We need nominees with real courtroom experience. Too many R noms haven't even stuck around for the second half of a Law & Order episode." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 17, 2019 Tweet - "I will always stand up for #DACA and the hundreds of thousands of #Dreamers across the U.S., and was proud to do so again today with @maziehirono, @RonWyden, @SenJackyRosen, & @repbenraylujan. The Senate must pass the #DreamAndPromiseAct immediately." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 17, 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Nomination Of John Knees To Serve As U.S. District Judge For The Northern District Of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 8, 2019 Tweet - "Muting Amb. Sondland from testifying before Congress on impeachment charges puts us on the inevitable path to the Supreme Court. A replay of the Nixon scenario." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 8, 2019 Tweet - "Today, the Supreme Court will hear cases to determine the future of LGBTQ protections in the workplace. No one should be fired for being who they are -- that's why I support the #EqualityAct. #DontRollBackOurRights" Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 4, 2019 Harris, Colleagues File Amicus Brief in Support of DACA in the Supreme Court Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Oct. 4, 2019 Tweet - "When President Trump ended #DACA more than two years ago, he set in motion a crisis jeopardizing the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people and their families. And now he's taking this fight all the way to the Supreme Court. We can't let him win." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 4, 2019 Congressional Leaders File Bipartisan Amicus Brief In Support Of DACA In The Supreme Court Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 30, 2019 Quigley, Cartwright, Lofgren Introduce Bill to Increase Transparency in Government Rep. Mike Quigley, ...
Sept. 24, 2019 Senators Introduce Bill to Boost Protection for SEC, CFTC Whistleblowers Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 23, 2019 Casten, Booker, Gillibrand, and Kennedy Introduce Legislation Banning Inequitable Calculations of Civil Damages Rep. Sean Casten, ...
Sept. 16, 2019 Durbin Statement On Recent Reporting On Justice Kavanaugh's Confirmation Process Sen. Dick Durbin
Sept. 16, 2019 Tweet - "My statement regarding the recent reporting around Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation process:" Sen. Dick Durbin
Sept. 4, 2019 Pallone and Schakowsky on FTC's Youtube settlement Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 31, 2019 Tweet - ".@RepShimkus and I have worked on many projects together, recently on expanding the fine work at @ScottAFB and establishing a bipartisan approach to filling judicial vacancies." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 13, 2019 Tweet - "The Supreme Court shouldn't undertake political projects at the behest of dark money groups like the NRA. I'm joining @SenWhitehouse, @MazieHirono, @SenBlumenthal, & @SenGillibrand in urging SCOTUS not to deviate from judicial principles just to satisfy these groups' demands." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 12, 2019 Durbin, Senators Call Out Partisan 'Project' To Tip Supreme Court In Favor Of NRA-Backed Plaintiffs Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 29, 2019 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, United States Attorney General - Representatives Jesús "Chuy" García, Barbara Lee Call on DOJ to Explain Elimination of In-Court Interpreters for Immigrants Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 23, 2019 Tweet - "Today the Senate passed a resolution that @SenDuckworth and I introduced to honor the life of a great Illinoisan, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and to praise his decades of service to this country and his profound contributions to American law." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "Yesterday marked the passing of a giant in American law. Justice John Paul Stevens served on the Supreme Court for nearly 35 years, bringing along his midwestern blend of brilliance, courtesy, & humility. His legacy is enormous." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "John Paul Stevens described the standard for a judge as "the impartial guardian of the rule of law." With his service on the Court, he met that standard throughout his life. I was honored to know him & admire his amiable yet rock solid way of addressing the issues of our time." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "The Judicial Crisis Network is a dark-money front organization that spends millions on ads and sees themselves as the Republican Party's gatekeeper for appellate court nominees. Who is writing their checks? Who are their donors? They won't say." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019 Foster, Stivers Join Senate Colleagues to Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Protect US Patent Holders, Inventors Rep. Bill Foster
July 9, 2019 Tweet - "Today, Leader McConnell has scheduled a vote on a nominee to fill a California-based judicial seat in the 9th Circuit. Unfortunately, that nominee, Daniel Bress, is a Washington, DC lawyer who has barely lived in California since high school." Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2019 Congressman Jesús "Chuy" García Welcomes Supreme Court Decision to Remove Citizenship Question from 2020 Census Rep. Chuy Garcia
June 21, 2019 Reps. Cleaver, Butterfield, Kelly, Lee, Watson Coleman Seek Answers From Big Tech on Legal Diversity Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
June 20, 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Nomination Of Martha Pacold, Mary Rowland, & Steven Seeger To Serve As U.S. District Judges For The Northern District Of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin
June 19, 2019 Tweet - "Senate Republicans just voted to give Matthew Kacsmaryk a lifetime appointment to the federal bench even though he has repeatedly written about his opposition to LGBTQ rights & the Obergefell case. To confirm him -- especially during #PrideMonth -- is shameful." Sen. Dick Durbin
June 18, 2019 Tweet - "Once again, our Republican colleagues are spending the week rubber-stamping President Trump's extreme nominees. June is #PrideMonth, but Republicans decided to call a vote this week on Texas district court nominee Matthew Kacsmaryk, a radical opponent of LGBTQ rights." Sen. Dick Durbin
June 4, 2019 Tweet - "Under Leader McConnell, the Senate is considering partisan, controversial lifetime appointments to the federal courts and virtually nothing else. He has created a legislative graveyard. It does not have to be this way." Sen. Dick Durbin
May 30, 2019 Tweet - "In life and in politics, a person is only as good as their word. Sen. McConnell's tortured logic in denying Pres. Obama an appointment to the Supreme Court has now been abandoned for Pres. Trump." Sen. Dick Durbin
May 23, 2019 Nominations Sen. Dick Durbin
May 21, 2019 Tweet - "When it comes to abortion, North Carolina district court nominee Kenneth Bell once wrote in an op-ed, "there is no middle ground." Senate Republicans advanced his nomination today, rubber stamping yet another judicial nominee with extreme ideological views." Sen. Dick Durbin
May 21, 2019 Tweet - "Utah district court nominee Howard Nielson -- whom the Senate will vote on today - wrote a memo for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel arguing that the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit torture, do not apply to civilians captured abroad. #StopNielson" Sen. Dick Durbin
May 20, 2019 Tweet - "Daniel Collins, nominated to a CA 9th Circuit seat, is receiving a vote over the objection of both CA Senators. Before this year, a judicial nominee had never been confirmed over the objection of both home state Senators. If Collins is confirmed, it will be the 6th time this year" Sen. Dick Durbin
May 16, 2019 Tweet - "Yesterday Senate Republicans rubber stamped Kenneth Lee to the 9th Circuit. To say Lee's writings are extreme would be an understatement. He wrote, "Charges of sexism often amount to nothing but irrelevant pouting." This is someone who deserved a lifetime federal judgeship?" Sen. Dick Durbin
May 16, 2019 Tweet - "Republicans just approved Wendy Vitter to serve on the federal bench. While moderating a panel, she told an audience to urge their doctors to put in their waiting rooms a brochure entitled "The Pill Kills." This is someone who deserved a lifetime federal judgeship?" Sen. Dick Durbin
May 14, 2019 Tweet - "Wendy Vitter failed to disclose more than 100 speeches & documents to the Judiciary Committee, including a panel she moderated in 2013 where she told the audience to urge their doctors to put a brochure entitled "The Pill Kills" in waiting rooms. #UnfitToJudge #CourtsMatter" Sen. Dick Durbin
May 13, 2019 Tweet - "This week, Senate Republicans are expected to rubber-stamp 3 more Trump judicial nominees who are far out of the mainstream. They have turned the Senate's advice and consent process into an assembly line to confirm ideological extremists. The Senate can, and should, do better." Sen. Dick Durbin
May 2, 2019 Tillis Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Middle-Class Creators From Copyright Infringement Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
April 3, 2019 Tweet - "Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans just went nuclear to change Senate rules for debating nominations. Why? Republicans want to pack the courts with extreme, ideological judicial nominees with less time for scrutiny" Sen. Dick Durbin
April 2, 2019 Tweet - "Senate Republicans want to use the nuclear option to change the rules. Why? So they can avoid close scrutiny of their extreme judicial nominees." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 21, 2019 Letter to Director James C. Duff - Review of Heritage Foundation Training Program Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Date Title Politician
Oct. 23, 2019 Tweet - "While the House is busy passing legislation to address the most pressing issues facing the American people, Senate Republicans are focused almost exclusively on rubber-stamping President Trump's unqualified, ideological judicial nominees. This week, it's Justin Walker of KY." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 23, 2019 Tweet - "Nominees for lifetime appointments to federal judgeships should know their way around a courtroom. There are plenty of experienced attorneys in the Second Circuit -- so why did the WH pick Steven Menashi, their own in-house lawyer, when he has literally never argued in court?" Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 22, 2019 Tweet - "Trump judicial nominee Steven Menashi has never tried a case, argued an appeal, or conducted a deposition. Instead, he's been working with Betsy DeVos & Stephen Miller to help carry out their partisan agendas. He's entirely unfit for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 22, 2019 Pallone and Schakowsky on FTC's Sunday Riley Settlement Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
Oct. 18, 2019 Senators Durbin, Wyden, Hirono, Rose and Assistant Speaker Lujan Stand with DACA SCOTUS Plaintiffs and Immigration Advocates to Call on Congress to Protect DREAMERS Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Oct. 17, 2019 Durbin Stands With DACA Supreme Court Plaintiffs To Call On Congress To Protect Dreamers Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 17, 2019 Judicial Travel Accountability Act Unveiled In Congress Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Oct. 17, 2019 Tweet - "Of all the attorneys in Kentucky, couldn't Republicans find one who is qualified to be a federal trial judge? Justin Walker clearly isn't. We need nominees with real courtroom experience. Too many R noms haven't even stuck around for the second half of a Law & Order episode." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 17, 2019 Tweet - "I will always stand up for #DACA and the hundreds of thousands of #Dreamers across the U.S., and was proud to do so again today with @maziehirono, @RonWyden, @SenJackyRosen, & @repbenraylujan. The Senate must pass the #DreamAndPromiseAct immediately." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 17, 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Nomination Of John Knees To Serve As U.S. District Judge For The Northern District Of Illinois Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 8, 2019 Tweet - "Muting Amb. Sondland from testifying before Congress on impeachment charges puts us on the inevitable path to the Supreme Court. A replay of the Nixon scenario." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 8, 2019 Tweet - "Today, the Supreme Court will hear cases to determine the future of LGBTQ protections in the workplace. No one should be fired for being who they are -- that's why I support the #EqualityAct. #DontRollBackOurRights" Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 4, 2019 Harris, Colleagues File Amicus Brief in Support of DACA in the Supreme Court Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Oct. 4, 2019 Tweet - "When President Trump ended #DACA more than two years ago, he set in motion a crisis jeopardizing the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people and their families. And now he's taking this fight all the way to the Supreme Court. We can't let him win." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 4, 2019 Congressional Leaders File Bipartisan Amicus Brief In Support Of DACA In The Supreme Court Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 30, 2019 Quigley, Cartwright, Lofgren Introduce Bill to Increase Transparency in Government Rep.Mike Quigley, ...
Sept. 24, 2019 Senators Introduce Bill to Boost Protection for SEC, CFTC Whistleblowers Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 23, 2019 Casten, Booker, Gillibrand, and Kennedy Introduce Legislation Banning Inequitable Calculations of Civil Damages Rep.Sean Casten, ...
Sept. 16, 2019 Durbin Statement On Recent Reporting On Justice Kavanaugh's Confirmation Process Sen.Dick Durbin
Sept. 16, 2019 Tweet - "My statement regarding the recent reporting around Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation process:" Sen.Dick Durbin
Sept. 4, 2019 Pallone and Schakowsky on FTC's Youtube settlement Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 31, 2019 Tweet - ".@RepShimkus and I have worked on many projects together, recently on expanding the fine work at @ScottAFB and establishing a bipartisan approach to filling judicial vacancies." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 13, 2019 Tweet - "The Supreme Court shouldn't undertake political projects at the behest of dark money groups like the NRA. I'm joining @SenWhitehouse, @MazieHirono, @SenBlumenthal, & @SenGillibrand in urging SCOTUS not to deviate from judicial principles just to satisfy these groups' demands." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 12, 2019 Durbin, Senators Call Out Partisan 'Project' To Tip Supreme Court In Favor Of NRA-Backed Plaintiffs Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 29, 2019 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, United States Attorney General - Representatives Jesús "Chuy" García, Barbara Lee Call on DOJ to Explain Elimination of In-Court Interpreters for Immigrants Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 23, 2019 Tweet - "Today the Senate passed a resolution that @SenDuckworth and I introduced to honor the life of a great Illinoisan, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and to praise his decades of service to this country and his profound contributions to American law." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "Yesterday marked the passing of a giant in American law. Justice John Paul Stevens served on the Supreme Court for nearly 35 years, bringing along his midwestern blend of brilliance, courtesy, & humility. His legacy is enormous." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "John Paul Stevens described the standard for a judge as "the impartial guardian of the rule of law." With his service on the Court, he met that standard throughout his life. I was honored to know him & admire his amiable yet rock solid way of addressing the issues of our time." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "The Judicial Crisis Network is a dark-money front organization that spends millions on ads and sees themselves as the Republican Party's gatekeeper for appellate court nominees. Who is writing their checks? Who are their donors? They won't say." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019 Foster, Stivers Join Senate Colleagues to Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Protect US Patent Holders, Inventors Rep.Bill Foster
July 9, 2019 Tweet - "Today, Leader McConnell has scheduled a vote on a nominee to fill a California-based judicial seat in the 9th Circuit. Unfortunately, that nominee, Daniel Bress, is a Washington, DC lawyer who has barely lived in California since high school." Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2019 Congressman Jesús "Chuy" García Welcomes Supreme Court Decision to Remove Citizenship Question from 2020 Census Rep.Chuy Garcia
June 21, 2019 Reps. Cleaver, Butterfield, Kelly, Lee, Watson Coleman Seek Answers From Big Tech on Legal Diversity Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
June 20, 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Nomination Of Martha Pacold, Mary Rowland, & Steven Seeger To Serve As U.S. District Judges For The Northern District Of Illinois Sen.Dick Durbin
June 19, 2019 Tweet - "Senate Republicans just voted to give Matthew Kacsmaryk a lifetime appointment to the federal bench even though he has repeatedly written about his opposition to LGBTQ rights & the Obergefell case. To confirm him -- especially during #PrideMonth -- is shameful." Sen.Dick Durbin
June 18, 2019 Tweet - "Once again, our Republican colleagues are spending the week rubber-stamping President Trump's extreme nominees. June is #PrideMonth, but Republicans decided to call a vote this week on Texas district court nominee Matthew Kacsmaryk, a radical opponent of LGBTQ rights." Sen.Dick Durbin
June 4, 2019 Tweet - "Under Leader McConnell, the Senate is considering partisan, controversial lifetime appointments to the federal courts and virtually nothing else. He has created a legislative graveyard. It does not have to be this way." Sen.Dick Durbin
May 30, 2019 Tweet - "In life and in politics, a person is only as good as their word. Sen. McConnell's tortured logic in denying Pres. Obama an appointment to the Supreme Court has now been abandoned for Pres. Trump." Sen.Dick Durbin
May 23, 2019 Nominations Sen.Dick Durbin
May 21, 2019 Tweet - "When it comes to abortion, North Carolina district court nominee Kenneth Bell once wrote in an op-ed, "there is no middle ground." Senate Republicans advanced his nomination today, rubber stamping yet another judicial nominee with extreme ideological views." Sen.Dick Durbin
May 21, 2019 Tweet - "Utah district court nominee Howard Nielson -- whom the Senate will vote on today - wrote a memo for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel arguing that the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit torture, do not apply to civilians captured abroad. #StopNielson" Sen.Dick Durbin
May 20, 2019 Tweet - "Daniel Collins, nominated to a CA 9th Circuit seat, is receiving a vote over the objection of both CA Senators. Before this year, a judicial nominee had never been confirmed over the objection of both home state Senators. If Collins is confirmed, it will be the 6th time this year" Sen.Dick Durbin
May 16, 2019 Tweet - "Yesterday Senate Republicans rubber stamped Kenneth Lee to the 9th Circuit. To say Lee's writings are extreme would be an understatement. He wrote, "Charges of sexism often amount to nothing but irrelevant pouting." This is someone who deserved a lifetime federal judgeship?" Sen.Dick Durbin
May 16, 2019 Tweet - "Republicans just approved Wendy Vitter to serve on the federal bench. While moderating a panel, she told an audience to urge their doctors to put in their waiting rooms a brochure entitled "The Pill Kills." This is someone who deserved a lifetime federal judgeship?" Sen.Dick Durbin
May 14, 2019 Tweet - "Wendy Vitter failed to disclose more than 100 speeches & documents to the Judiciary Committee, including a panel she moderated in 2013 where she told the audience to urge their doctors to put a brochure entitled "The Pill Kills" in waiting rooms. #UnfitToJudge #CourtsMatter" Sen.Dick Durbin
May 13, 2019 Tweet - "This week, Senate Republicans are expected to rubber-stamp 3 more Trump judicial nominees who are far out of the mainstream. They have turned the Senate's advice and consent process into an assembly line to confirm ideological extremists. The Senate can, and should, do better." Sen.Dick Durbin
May 2, 2019 Tillis Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Middle-Class Creators From Copyright Infringement Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
April 3, 2019 Tweet - "Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans just went nuclear to change Senate rules for debating nominations. Why? Republicans want to pack the courts with extreme, ideological judicial nominees with less time for scrutiny" Sen.Dick Durbin
April 2, 2019 Tweet - "Senate Republicans want to use the nuclear option to change the rules. Why? So they can avoid close scrutiny of their extreme judicial nominees." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 21, 2019 Letter to Director James C. Duff - Review of Heritage Foundation Training Program Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
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