Senator Durbin: The Senate Needs to Do Its Job & Give President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee a Fair Hearing and a Timely Vote (Video)

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2016.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke on the Senate Floor today to tell his Republican colleagues that “the Senate can’t afford to sit on its hands for one year and leave the Supreme Court hanging in the balance.”

Durbin called attention to the practical and legal ramifications of leaving an extended vacancy on the Supreme Court, noting that, “Major legal and constitutional questions are constantly brought before the court. When…