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Dick Durbin: “We stopped filling the vacancies of U.S. attorneys under…”

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

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Durbin Speaks Against Extreme, Unqualified Trump U.S. Attorney Nominees

Published | Video Starts at 01:28

We've done this on a bipartisan basis up until now, but he says we want to vote on every one of them. Well, he got his way and We stopped filling the vacancies of U.S. attorneys under President Biden. And now under President Bush, pardon me, President Trump's second term, we're having individual votes on each one. I don't believe it should ever have reached that point, but it has. (01:28–01:33)

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Asserts that U.S. attorney vacancies were not filled under Biden.

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