GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Their Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee had full-blown meltdowns on Thursday after Chairman Dick Durbin held votes on two of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees without allowing debate on them, saying he was simply following the “new precedent” established by Republicans when they did the same thing to Democrats, twice. “I understand what you’d like to do, but I’m saying, in fairness, we’ve debated these nominees twice,” Durbin said. Just do it!” Sen. Lindsey Graham fumed at Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin for following a precedent set by Republicans on advancing judicial nominees. “That’s what Mr. Cotton says.” When Blackburn said again she wanted to talk, Cotton interjected, “Now I guess Sen. Durbin is not going to allow women to speak either.
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