Posted on 09/25/2018 6:22:33 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today called on Senate Republicans to support a nonpartisan, independent FBI investigation into the serious and credible sexual assault allegations against President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. In a speech on the Senate floor, Durbin pushed back on claims made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that the sexual assault allegations against Judge Kavanaugh are simply a “shameful smear campaign,” by Democrats.
“The Republicans refuse an investigation of the charges by Dr. Ford. Dr. Ford has called for the FBI to investigate her own charges. They [Republicans] refuse. If they truly believed that there was no evidence, no witness to back up the charges of Dr. Ford, wouldn’t they obviously have called the FBI and said ‘Do your job. Find what you can, and we are confident at the end that Judge Kavanaugh will be exonerated?’ But they haven’t. And despite all the calls for fairness, fairness over and over again by Senator McConnell, fairness would dictate that a nonpartisan investigative group like the FBI look into this matter and come to conclusions, whatever they may be.”
Durbin continued, “No one, not any single American, is entitled to a seat on the Supreme Court. It’s a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. The person who fills that seat can make decisions which swing history one way or the other. Decisions that can affect justice, privacy, and fairness in American life. And for that reason, all of us – all the members of the Senate and certainly the Senate Judiciary Committee – have to take that seriously. I’m going to take it seriously, and I hope members on both sides of the aisle will.”
Video of Durbin’s remarks on the Senate Floor are available here.
Audio of Durbin’s remarks on the Senate Floor are available here.
I’ll never understand why Illinois keeps re-electing Whip Dick ::head shake::
I don’t know anyone who ever claimed that people are.
Idiot.
“My name is DICK and I’m a professional Projectionist.”
wow, there goes my seat on the court thanx dick
the fBI has a responsibility to do backgrounds on judicial and other nominations,.
Right you are, Dick. Oh, and NO ONE is entitled to the Oval Office, either.
She lost. GET OVER IT!!!
The SCOTUS isn’t entitled to all of the pantheonic powers it has usurped or unvented. President Trump should expand it size to 500 nonlawyer justices, about the size of the legislature it is replacing.
nor president... even if it was her turn.
LOL!
No on is entitled to an FBI investigation!
So Durbin agrees that Merritt Garland was not entitled to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Judge Brett Kavanaugh has had 5 or 6 FBI background checks for previous appointments and nothing was found. He surely had a major background check this time also. An FIB investigation of a supposed crime 30 years ago is what I took the democrats to be requesting. A sexual assault classification of a crime nowadays may not have have been a crime 30 years ago anyway I suspect a statute of limitations would have run out.
dick doesn’t think,just reads stuff given to him.
Sure, nobody is entitled to a Supreme Court seat, but the voters are entitled to have their will enacted by their rightfully elected representative, and Durbin and his communist buddies are attempting to thwart that will.
Then all the more reason for Ginsburg to get her ass out of her seat.
Dick, no one is entitled to be stupid, either, but you have succeeded immensely in doing that.
“Durbin: No One Is Entitled To A Seat On The Supreme Court”
But what if they identify as a transgender SC justice? Are they entitled . . . at least to a SC participation trophy?
I am not supporting the supposed victim. Grassley has to walk fine line to support “victims” when an allegation is made on a judicial nominee who has 6 investigations, the allegation would be the 7th. In this case they may have found insufficient information. I came her to say the original comment is false. The FBI does plenty of investigations which are not base don federal law violations, every time adjudge is nominated or allegations are made against them.. that is my only point. if you can refute that then s\cite your information otherwise accept what process grassley has been using.
No one is entitled to a senate seat. If your state weren’t so far gone, you would be.
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