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Aug. 30, 2018 Tweet - "It's clear that there are many parts of Judge Kavanaugh's record that Republicans do not want the American people to see. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 29, 2018 Tweet - "It's particularly important to review the record of *this* SCOTUS nominee who has been appointed by *this* President at *this* moment. And it's shocking that the Administration & Senate Republicans are hiding huge portions of Judge Kavanaugh's record in light of this." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 28, 2018 Letter to Charles E. Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee - Judiciary Committee Democrats Protest Withholding of Kavanaugh Documents Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 28, 2018 Tweet - "We have less than a week before the nomination hearing for Judge Kavanuagh, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has received less than 6% of his White House record. This vetting process is woefully inadequate. What are Senate Republicans hiding?" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 24, 2018 Tweet - "We are at the threshold of a constitutional crisis. Rushing ahead with a hearing on Judge Kavanaugh -- who has argued a sitting President shouldn't be investigated -- would be a mistake." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 24, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary - Judiciary Committee Democrats Call for Postponement of Kavanaugh Hearing Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 24, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee - EPW Democrats Press Judiciary Chairman Grassley for Kavanaugh Documents on Environmental Matters Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 23, 2018 Durbin Statement On Meeting With Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 23, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh today acknowledged that he was involved in many of these issues, including same-sex marriage, abortion, executive power, detainees, torture, Supreme Court nominations, warrantless wiretapping, and more." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 23, 2018 Tweet - "The Administration and Senate Republicans have refused to disclose any documents from the 35 months that Judge Kavanaugh spent as Staff Secretary in the White House, a time when many controversial issues of constitutional importance were debated and decided." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 23, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh was strident during the investigation of President Clinton. Years later while working in the Bush WH, he changed his tune on presidential investigations. In light of the verdicts and guilty pleas this week, the American people deserve to know where he stands." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 22, 2018 Tweet - "In 2010, the public was able to see 99% of Justice Kagan's record from her time in the Clinton White House. Fast forward to 2018, and the public has seen only 2% of Judge Kavanaugh's record from his time in the Bush White House. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 22, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh worked in the Bush WH for 5 years, 35 months as Staff Secretary. He called that time "formative" for his career as a judge. The Judiciary Committee has ZERO documents from his 35 months as Staff Secretary. It's a black hole in his record. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 21, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh worked in the Bush White House for 5 years. 2% of his records from that time have been made public -- and those were cherrypicked for release by Kavanaugh's former deputy, a Republican lawyer. Does that sound fair, transparent, and objective? #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 21, 2018 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019--Continued Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 21, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans are refusing to be transparent about Judge Kavanaugh's records prior to his hearing. The public has only seen a glimpse of handpicked docs from Kavanaugh's White House tenure and no docs from his self-described "formative" years as Staff Secretary. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 18, 2018 Tweet - "The process Republicans have chosen to follow for the Kavanaugh nomination is unprecedented for a Supreme Court Justice, riddled with hypocrisy, and lacks transparency. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 17, 2018 Tweet - "Right now, the White House is saying to the American people: critical documents about Judge Kavanaugh's decisions as a top staffer to President Bush are just like President Trump's tax returns. None of your business." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 17, 2018 Tweet - "Even in the small percentage of docs made available to the Judiciary Comm thru the partisan process led by Kavanaugh's former deputy, we have found info raising serious concerns regarding Judge Kavanaugh's '06 noms hearing, where we believe he misled the Senate #ReleasetheRecords" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Take note: Republicans are trying to ignore the plain words of what Judge Kavanaugh said under oath in 2006: "I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants." This statement covers his time as WH Staff Secretary." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Don't be fooled: Judge Kavanaugh's record is being scrubbed by a GOP lawyer who was Kavanaugh's WH Deputy, who is picking & choosing which Kavanaugh docs to share. Not transparent, not objective, & not part of the non-partisan National Archives process." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 16, 2018 Letter to Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee - Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, To Chairman Grassley: Documents Indicate That Kavanaugh Misled Senate; Make Them Public Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 15, 2018 Tweet - "Completely unprecedented. How can Republicans say this is a fair, objective, or transparent process before a confirmation hearing for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court?" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 14, 2018 Tweet - "99% of Justice Kagan's White House records were made public before her confirmation hearing. Approximately 1% of Judge Kavanaugh's White House records have been made public, and his hearing is scheduled in a few short weeks. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 14, 2018 Tweet - "Would #SCOTUS nominee Judge Kavanaugh give a fair shake to #Dreamers and millions of other immigrants punished by the Trump Administration's cruel and thoughtless policies? Civil and human rights hang in the balance. #WhatsAtStake" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 13, 2018 Tweet - "Don't be fooled: Republicans are only revealing documents from Judge Kavanaugh's WH tenure that they want you to see. Only 1% of Kavanaugh's WH records have been made public. This is why we need the neutral National Archives process. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 11, 2018 Tweet - "Senate Republicans want to wrap up Judge Kavanaugh's hearing before the National Archives releases documents - which Republicans themselves requested - about the work Kavanaugh did in the White House. This is unprecedented and unfair to the American people." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 10, 2018 Durbin Statement On Announcement Of Kavanaugh Hearings Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 10, 2018 Tweet - "Take note: Unless it was produced by the National Archives, every document you see from Judge Kavanaugh's White House tenure was selectively chosen for release by his former deputy, Bill Burck. This is not an objective process." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "I have no confidence the partisan GOP document production being led by Judge Kavanaugh's former deputy will provide full accounting of Kavanaugh's White House record. But even the cherry-picked docs we've seen include evidence that contradicts his sworn testimony from 12 yrs ago." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans think they will be able to get away with hiding Judge Kavanaugh's White House record from the American people. The stakes are too high to let that happen. #WhatAreTheyHiding #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 8, 2018 Tweet - "The people of this nation deserve honesty and transparency in filling this historic vacancy to the Supreme Court, and that is what our request today is aiming to accomplish." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 8, 2018 Letter to Gary Stern, General Counsel and Chief FOIA Officer at the National Archives and Records Administration - Release Kavanaugh Documents Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "The only WH documents Republicans want revealed before Judge Kavanaugh's hearing are documents that have been pre-screened & hand-picked by his former deputy, who is also Steve Bannon's and Don McGahn's lawyer. You can't make this up. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans are doing all they can to hide Judge Kavanaugh's records as White House Staff Secretary. Kavanaugh touted that job as "formative" to who he is as a judge. What are they hiding? #WhatsAtStake #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "The American people got to see 99% of Justice Kagan's White House records before her Supreme Court hearing. What percentage of Judge Kavanaugh's White House records will Republicans allow the American people to see before his hearing? Half? A third?" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "As we consider the Kavanaugh nomination -- a nominee the public knows little about -- we should follow the same standards of disclosure that nominees of Democratic presidents were held to. It's about transparency and fairness. #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Letter to the Honorable Patrick X. Mordente, Brigadier General, Director for the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum - Judiciary Democrats Officially Request All Kavanaugh Documents from Archives Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 26, 2018 Letter to the Honorable Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice - On Deadline Day to Reunite Separated Families, Feinstein, Durbin, Colleagues Call for Investigation of "Zero Tolerance" Immigration Policy Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 26, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the Hon. Edward Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - Congress Members Demand Hearing on 3-D Printed Guns Settlement Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 24, 2018 Tweet - "In this 2016 article, Judge Kavanaugh is quoted saying about a Bush Admin proposal that he's "a little biased on this because I helped work on it." This is why we need access to documents on everything he worked on at the Bush White House. #CourtsMatter" Sen. Dick Durbin
July 23, 2018 Heitkamp, Enzi, Durbin, Alexander Statement Regarding Sales Tax Collection in the Aftermath of the Supreme Court's Decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 19, 2018 Tweet - "Ryan Bounds never deserved a seat on the federal bench. I'm glad his judicial nomination was just withdrawn." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 19, 2018 Duckworth: Kavanaugh Unwilling To Protect Many Of The Individual Rights And Legal Protections We Hold Dear Sen. Ladda Duckworth
July 19, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh never replied to a letter I sent him 11 years ago about a misleading answer he gave during Congressional testimony on his involvement in questions about the rules governing detention of combatants during the Bush Administration." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "Senate Republicans just rubber-stamped another extreme, Federalist Society-approved judicial nominee to the federal appellate bench: 39-year-old Andrew Oldham" Sen. Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Executive Session Sen. Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "When a right-wing think tank asked Judge Kavanaugh about his views on overturning Supreme Court cases, he answered the question. He needs to answer the Senate's questions too." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh must also answer whether he would support the existing special counsel investigation into Russia's attack on our democracy. His record shows serious cause for concern." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "Now Republicans are looking to rubber-stamp Ryan Bounds to be a federal circuit judge sitting in Oregon. Bounds has received zero blue slips; his nomination is strongly opposed by both of Oregon's senators." Sen. Dick Durbin
Date Title Politician
Aug. 30, 2018 Tweet - "It's clear that there are many parts of Judge Kavanaugh's record that Republicans do not want the American people to see. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 29, 2018 Tweet - "It's particularly important to review the record of *this* SCOTUS nominee who has been appointed by *this* President at *this* moment. And it's shocking that the Administration & Senate Republicans are hiding huge portions of Judge Kavanaugh's record in light of this." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 28, 2018 Letter to Charles E. Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee - Judiciary Committee Democrats Protest Withholding of Kavanaugh Documents Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 28, 2018 Tweet - "We have less than a week before the nomination hearing for Judge Kavanuagh, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has received less than 6% of his White House record. This vetting process is woefully inadequate. What are Senate Republicans hiding?" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 24, 2018 Tweet - "We are at the threshold of a constitutional crisis. Rushing ahead with a hearing on Judge Kavanaugh -- who has argued a sitting President shouldn't be investigated -- would be a mistake." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 24, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary - Judiciary Committee Democrats Call for Postponement of Kavanaugh Hearing Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 24, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee - EPW Democrats Press Judiciary Chairman Grassley for Kavanaugh Documents on Environmental Matters Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 23, 2018 Durbin Statement On Meeting With Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 23, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh today acknowledged that he was involved in many of these issues, including same-sex marriage, abortion, executive power, detainees, torture, Supreme Court nominations, warrantless wiretapping, and more." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 23, 2018 Tweet - "The Administration and Senate Republicans have refused to disclose any documents from the 35 months that Judge Kavanaugh spent as Staff Secretary in the White House, a time when many controversial issues of constitutional importance were debated and decided." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 23, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh was strident during the investigation of President Clinton. Years later while working in the Bush WH, he changed his tune on presidential investigations. In light of the verdicts and guilty pleas this week, the American people deserve to know where he stands." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 22, 2018 Tweet - "In 2010, the public was able to see 99% of Justice Kagan's record from her time in the Clinton White House. Fast forward to 2018, and the public has seen only 2% of Judge Kavanaugh's record from his time in the Bush White House. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 22, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh worked in the Bush WH for 5 years, 35 months as Staff Secretary. He called that time "formative" for his career as a judge. The Judiciary Committee has ZERO documents from his 35 months as Staff Secretary. It's a black hole in his record. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 21, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh worked in the Bush White House for 5 years. 2% of his records from that time have been made public -- and those were cherrypicked for release by Kavanaugh's former deputy, a Republican lawyer. Does that sound fair, transparent, and objective? #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 21, 2018 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019--Continued Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 21, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans are refusing to be transparent about Judge Kavanaugh's records prior to his hearing. The public has only seen a glimpse of handpicked docs from Kavanaugh's White House tenure and no docs from his self-described "formative" years as Staff Secretary. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 18, 2018 Tweet - "The process Republicans have chosen to follow for the Kavanaugh nomination is unprecedented for a Supreme Court Justice, riddled with hypocrisy, and lacks transparency. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 17, 2018 Tweet - "Right now, the White House is saying to the American people: critical documents about Judge Kavanaugh's decisions as a top staffer to President Bush are just like President Trump's tax returns. None of your business." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 17, 2018 Tweet - "Even in the small percentage of docs made available to the Judiciary Comm thru the partisan process led by Kavanaugh's former deputy, we have found info raising serious concerns regarding Judge Kavanaugh's '06 noms hearing, where we believe he misled the Senate #ReleasetheRecords" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Take note: Republicans are trying to ignore the plain words of what Judge Kavanaugh said under oath in 2006: "I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants." This statement covers his time as WH Staff Secretary." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Don't be fooled: Judge Kavanaugh's record is being scrubbed by a GOP lawyer who was Kavanaugh's WH Deputy, who is picking & choosing which Kavanaugh docs to share. Not transparent, not objective, & not part of the non-partisan National Archives process." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 16, 2018 Letter to Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee - Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, To Chairman Grassley: Documents Indicate That Kavanaugh Misled Senate; Make Them Public Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 15, 2018 Tweet - "Completely unprecedented. How can Republicans say this is a fair, objective, or transparent process before a confirmation hearing for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court?" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 14, 2018 Tweet - "99% of Justice Kagan's White House records were made public before her confirmation hearing. Approximately 1% of Judge Kavanaugh's White House records have been made public, and his hearing is scheduled in a few short weeks. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 14, 2018 Tweet - "Would #SCOTUS nominee Judge Kavanaugh give a fair shake to #Dreamers and millions of other immigrants punished by the Trump Administration's cruel and thoughtless policies? Civil and human rights hang in the balance. #WhatsAtStake" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 13, 2018 Tweet - "Don't be fooled: Republicans are only revealing documents from Judge Kavanaugh's WH tenure that they want you to see. Only 1% of Kavanaugh's WH records have been made public. This is why we need the neutral National Archives process. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 11, 2018 Tweet - "Senate Republicans want to wrap up Judge Kavanaugh's hearing before the National Archives releases documents - which Republicans themselves requested - about the work Kavanaugh did in the White House. This is unprecedented and unfair to the American people." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 10, 2018 Durbin Statement On Announcement Of Kavanaugh Hearings Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 10, 2018 Tweet - "Take note: Unless it was produced by the National Archives, every document you see from Judge Kavanaugh's White House tenure was selectively chosen for release by his former deputy, Bill Burck. This is not an objective process." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "I have no confidence the partisan GOP document production being led by Judge Kavanaugh's former deputy will provide full accounting of Kavanaugh's White House record. But even the cherry-picked docs we've seen include evidence that contradicts his sworn testimony from 12 yrs ago." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans think they will be able to get away with hiding Judge Kavanaugh's White House record from the American people. The stakes are too high to let that happen. #WhatAreTheyHiding #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 8, 2018 Tweet - "The people of this nation deserve honesty and transparency in filling this historic vacancy to the Supreme Court, and that is what our request today is aiming to accomplish." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 8, 2018 Letter to Gary Stern, General Counsel and Chief FOIA Officer at the National Archives and Records Administration - Release Kavanaugh Documents Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "The only WH documents Republicans want revealed before Judge Kavanaugh's hearing are documents that have been pre-screened & hand-picked by his former deputy, who is also Steve Bannon's and Don McGahn's lawyer. You can't make this up. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans are doing all they can to hide Judge Kavanaugh's records as White House Staff Secretary. Kavanaugh touted that job as "formative" to who he is as a judge. What are they hiding? #WhatsAtStake #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "The American people got to see 99% of Justice Kagan's White House records before her Supreme Court hearing. What percentage of Judge Kavanaugh's White House records will Republicans allow the American people to see before his hearing? Half? A third?" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "As we consider the Kavanaugh nomination -- a nominee the public knows little about -- we should follow the same standards of disclosure that nominees of Democratic presidents were held to. It's about transparency and fairness. #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Letter to the Honorable Patrick X. Mordente, Brigadier General, Director for the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum - Judiciary Democrats Officially Request All Kavanaugh Documents from Archives Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 26, 2018 Letter to the Honorable Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice - On Deadline Day to Reunite Separated Families, Feinstein, Durbin, Colleagues Call for Investigation of "Zero Tolerance" Immigration Policy Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 26, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the Hon. Edward Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - Congress Members Demand Hearing on 3-D Printed Guns Settlement Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 24, 2018 Tweet - "In this 2016 article, Judge Kavanaugh is quoted saying about a Bush Admin proposal that he's "a little biased on this because I helped work on it." This is why we need access to documents on everything he worked on at the Bush White House. #CourtsMatter" Sen.Dick Durbin
July 23, 2018 Heitkamp, Enzi, Durbin, Alexander Statement Regarding Sales Tax Collection in the Aftermath of the Supreme Court's Decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 19, 2018 Tweet - "Ryan Bounds never deserved a seat on the federal bench. I'm glad his judicial nomination was just withdrawn." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 19, 2018 Duckworth: Kavanaugh Unwilling To Protect Many Of The Individual Rights And Legal Protections We Hold Dear Sen.Ladda Duckworth
July 19, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh never replied to a letter I sent him 11 years ago about a misleading answer he gave during Congressional testimony on his involvement in questions about the rules governing detention of combatants during the Bush Administration." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "Senate Republicans just rubber-stamped another extreme, Federalist Society-approved judicial nominee to the federal appellate bench: 39-year-old Andrew Oldham" Sen.Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Executive Session Sen.Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "When a right-wing think tank asked Judge Kavanaugh about his views on overturning Supreme Court cases, he answered the question. He needs to answer the Senate's questions too." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh must also answer whether he would support the existing special counsel investigation into Russia's attack on our democracy. His record shows serious cause for concern." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 18, 2018 Tweet - "Now Republicans are looking to rubber-stamp Ryan Bounds to be a federal circuit judge sitting in Oregon. Bounds has received zero blue slips; his nomination is strongly opposed by both of Oregon's senators." Sen.Dick Durbin
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