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Nov. 13, 2024
Durbin, Duckworth Statement On Senate Confirmation Of U.S. Magistrate Judge Hawley To Serve As A District Court Judge For The Central District Of Illinois
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Nov. 13, 2024
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Nov. 13, 2024
Durbin: We Must Confirm Every Possible Federal Judge In The Lame Duck Session
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Nov. 12, 2024
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Aug. 29, 2024
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Sept. 25, 2025
Senate Confirms Baldwin-Johnson Nominee for U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Sen.Tammy Baldwin
Dec. 2, 2024
McConnell On Judges Un-Retiring: ‘If You Play Political Games, Expect Political Prizes.’
Sen.Mitch McConnell
Nov. 22, 2024
Durbin Statement On President-Elect Trump's Intent To Nominate Pam Bondi As Attorney General
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Nov. 22, 2024
SCHUMER APPLAUDS WESTERN NY’S JUDGE MEREDITH VACCA, THE FIRST ASIAN-AMERICAN ON THE WDNY BENCH & WHO HE RECOMMENDED, BEING OFFICIALLY SWORN IN TO WESTERN DISTRICT OF NY FEDERAL COURT
Sen.Chuck Schumer
Nov. 21, 2024
Thune Calls Out Democrats’ Democracy Hypocrisy
Sen.John Thune
Nov. 21, 2024
Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Five Judicial Nominations, One Marshal Nomination, Patent Bill To Full Senate
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 21, 2024
Durbin, Murray Introduce Legislation To Ensure Victims Of Discrimination Can Seek Damages In Court, Despite Harmful Supreme Court Ruling
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 21, 2024
Booker, Goldman Introduce Bill to Strengthen Ethics Oversight on the U.S. Supreme Court
Sen.Cory Booker
Nov. 20, 2024
Chair Durbin Leads Senate Judiciary Democrats In Letter Asking FBI For Complete Evidentiary File In The Investigation of Matt Gaetz
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 19, 2024
On Senate Floor, Senator Murray Urges Colleagues to Confirm Judge Rebecca Pennell as a U.S. District Court Judge for Eastern Washington
Sen.Patty Murray
Nov. 18, 2024
Durbin: I'll Do Everything In My Power To Ensure That Donald Trump Cannot Turn DOJ Into His Personal Law Firm
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 18, 2024
Durbin Statement On Confirmation Of Judge Embry Kidd To The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 15, 2024
Durbin Statement On President-Elect Trump's Justice Department Nominations
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 14, 2024
Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Two Judicial Nominations, One Marshall Nomination, Patent Bill To Full Senate
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 14, 2024
Durbin Statement On House Ethics Committee Report On Matt Gaetz
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 14, 2024
Chair Durbin Leads Senate Judiciary Democrats In Letter Asking House Ethics Committee To Release Ethics Report On Matt Gaetz
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 13, 2024
Durbin, Duckworth Statement On Senate Confirmation Of U.S. Magistrate Judge Hawley To Serve As A District Court Judge For The Central District Of Illinois
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 13, 2024
Durbin Statement On President-Elect Trump's Attorney General Nominee, Rep. Matt Gaetz
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 13, 2024
Durbin: We Must Confirm Every Possible Federal Judge In The Lame Duck Session
Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 12, 2024
Durbin, Duckworth Statement On Senate Confirmation Of April Perry To Serve As A District Court Judge For The Northern District Of Ilinois
Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 21, 2024
Statement on Former Obama AG Suing U.S. Government on Behalf of Chinese Military Company DJI
Rep.Elise Stefanik
Oct. 10, 2024
Durbin Stands With Dreamers, DACA Recipients As Oral Arguments Begin In Texas V. US
Sen.Dick Durbin
Sept. 17, 2024
McConnell On The Judicial Bureaucracy And The First Amendment
Sen.Mitch McConnell
Sept. 12, 2024
Klobuchar, Smith Statements on the Bipartisan Senate Confirmation of Laura Provinzino to be U.S. District Court Judge
Sen.Amy Klobuchar
Aug. 29, 2024
Biden-Harris Admin. to Supreme Court: Drop Dead!
Sen.Mitch McConnell
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