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Dick Durbin: “In 1994, you wrote a law review comment in which you…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Questions Judicial Nominees During Judiciary Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 02:38

We had a good conversation, I thought. And I raised a question about some of the partners you've chosen to write commentaries and articles in law review. In 1994, you wrote a law review comment in which you extensively criticized the landmark Violence Against Women Act. You also extensively discussed rape in your comment. At one point, writing, and I quote, feminists have advanced the theory that rape is an act meant to perpetuate male domination. (02:38–02:46)

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Asserts that [the Other Speaker] criticized the Violence Against Women Act in a 1994 law review comment.

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