Obviously Dick Durbin doesn't know his history, not even the recent stuff.
* Lynne Stewart [NLG] & Kathy Boudin [SDS/Weather Underground] Over the past 25 years, [Attorney] Stewart has defended Weather Underground bomber Kathy Boudin ... ————— “ Cheerleaders for Terrorism: Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart continues her support for Islamic terror ,” By Erick Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com, Wednesday, June 17, 2003 posted June 18, 2003
(NLG) Stewart’s arguments found a receptive audience in the National Lawyers Guild, which featured her as a speaker and, in the wake of the guilty verdicts, called for a “National Day of Outrage.” Billionaire philanthropist George Soros’s Open Society Institute contributed $20,000 to her defense.[39][39 The National Review, Feb. 17, 2005]
She had long been popular among the Left. She had represented Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, and murderers of policemen.[40][40] Los Angeles Times, July 27, 2002; The New York Post, Feb. 11, 2005]
Various and assorted socialist organizations and fronts including Refuse and Resist, Pravda, and the World Socialist Website rallied behind her.[41] [41 World Socialist website, Feb. 14, 2005; On-Line Pravda, Apr. 11, 2002; Refuse and Resist, Oct. 29, 2004, Aug. 1, 2005]
——— “Lynne Stewart, Jihadi Lawyer,” Sharon Chadha, netWMD - The War to Mobilize Democracy ^ | January 11, 2006 | http://netwmd.com/blog/2006/01/11/286