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By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today introduced the Secure and Protect Act of 2023, an act to reform broken border policies and stop the rampant abuse of our asylum system.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) spoke today about children’s online safety and the lack of accountability from Big Tech
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today spoke about the judicial nomination process at the committee’s markup to consider judicial nominations.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, “The Equal Rights Amendment: How Congress Can Recognize Ratification and Enshrine Equality in Our Constitution.”
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, “The Equal Rights Amendment: How Congress Can Recognize Ratification and Enshrine Equality in Our Constitution.”
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today met with Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced the establishment of the Subcommittees of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the 118th Congress, and the assignment of Chairs, Ranking Members, and members to these Subcommittees.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned Jeffrey Cummings and LaShonda A. Hunt, both nominated to be United States District Judges for the Northern District of Illinois, at today’s Judiciary Committee nominations hearing.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nominations of Michael Delaney, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit; Jeffrey Cummings, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; Marian F. Gaston, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California; Wesley L. Hsu, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California; LaShonda A. Hunt, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; and Mónica Ramírez Almadani, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called out big corporations for their exploitation of bankruptcy to dodge accountability, and decried Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to use a corporate bankruptcy maneuver known as the “Texas Two-Step” to avoid facing claims from cancer-stricken customers.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Protecting Our Children Online.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, marked the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead and another 17 wounded, and the fifteenth anniversary of the mass shooting at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, that left five students dead and more than 20 injured.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement regarding the confirmation of the 100th lifetime judicial appointment during the Biden Administration, including one to the Supreme Court, 30 to the circuit courts, and 69 to the district courts:
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Protecting Our Children Online.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor highlighting his bipartisan Dream Act of 2023, which he reintroduced last week with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
As the collection of personal information by internet companies is encroaching more and more on the privacy of every American, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) today introduced legislation to strengthen online privacy protections for children when websites collect their personally identifiable information.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the Dream Act of 2023, which would allow noncitizens without lawful status who were brought to the United States as children and meet certain education or work requirements to earn lawful permanent residence.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate confirmed Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin to the United States Circuit Court for the Fourth Circuit. U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Judge Benjamin’s confirmation
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Senate Judiciary Committee advanced twenty-four judicial nominations, as well as five bipartisan bills to help lower prescription drug prices to the full Senate.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, today sent a letter to President Joe Biden to offer suggestions regarding the Administration’s recently announced initiative to give migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela a safe and orderly pathway to the United States, and to surge resources to humanely process migrants at our southwest border.
