Durbin, Richard J
Despite Biden’s Success on Judges, Progressives Demand a Faster Pace
WASHINGTON — With an extended summer recess looming and their majority at risk in November elections, Senate Democrats were facing the prospect of allowing dozens of judicial vacancies to go unfilled by President Biden this year, and under pressure from progressive activists to move more quickly and aggressively to push them through. Mr. Biden and […]
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Biden Drops Plan to Name Anti-Abortion Lawyer Backed by McConnell as Judge
WASHINGTON — The White House is abandoning plans to nominate a Kentucky lawyer who opposes abortion rights and is backed by Senator Mitch McConnell to a federal court seat, citing opposition from Senator Rand Paul, Mr. McConnell’s home-state colleague. The resistance from Mr. McConnell’s fellow Republican marked a new twist over a potential nomination that […]
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Congress Is Paralyzed on Guns. Here’s Why Chris Murphy Is Still Hopeful.
WASHINGTON — It did not take long after the racist gun massacre in Buffalo for a familiar sense of resignation to set in on Capitol Hill about the chance that Congress would be able to muster the will to act on meaningful legislation to combat gun violence in America. In emotional remarks at the scene […]
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Democrats Aim to Fill as Many Court Vacancies as Possible by End of 2022
WASHINGTON — The partisan clash that concluded with the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court is hardly the end of judicial showdowns in the Senate. With control of the chamber up for grabs in November, Democrats, led by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, intend to push through […]
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