Dick Durbin: ‘We Have to Make a Stand’ with Gorsuch on Selection of Federal Judges
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DURBIN: "We’ve got to make it clear that what has happened to the selection process for a federal judges across America needs to come to an end. We have to make a stand. This is not just a one-off decision when it comes to the Supreme Court. We’ve seen now almost for ten years an effort by the Republicans to dominate the federal judiciary. And they used the filibuster in the Senate to the point where we couldn’t even get judges approved. That’s why the rules were changed. And then, when President Obama tried to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, as every other president had done, Mitch McConnell said no, Merrick Garland will not get a hearing or a vote, I won't even meet with him -- a departure of 230 years of tradition in the United States Senate. So now comes Neil Gorsuch, carefully chosen by Republican advisory groups to the highest court of the land and we’re making a stand and saying this has to come to an end."
