Dick Durbin
The GOP senator recommended William Pocan to President Joe Biden, but now may tank his nomination for no real reason.
The Senate Judiciary chair, whose committee handles the nominee's confirmation, said Democrats are looking for younger candidates.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin made clear that they would move quickly once President Joe Biden makes his pick.
“Republicans chose to abandon this senatorial courtesy,” the Judiciary Committee chair said of advancing a Biden appeals court pick without blue slips.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Sens. Dick Durbin and Cory Booker have asked the president to commute the sentences of federal inmates who were released to home confinement.
The Democrat from Illinois called out Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson for fueling vaccine skepticism.
They want to make it "easier to vote, harder to cheat." Who cheated?
Immigration proponents wanting change under the Biden administration may have to accept “stepping stones” along the way.
Sen. Dick Durbin, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said there's no silver bullet for blocking Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are backing nominees who questioned Roe v. Wade and worked with groups trying to end abortion rights. Why?