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Defending freedoms. Advancing equality. Ensuring justice for all. News from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member @durbin.senate.gov.
From our Judiciary Dems family to yours: Merry Christmas! Enjoy the cocoa, presents, and time with your loved ones.
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
From our Judiciary Dems family to yours: Merry Christmas! Enjoy the cocoa, presents, and time with your loved ones.
WIN AT THE SUPREME COURT.
Even the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority refused to greenlight the Trump Administration’s blatantly unlawful overreach.
Even the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority refused to greenlight the Trump Administration’s blatantly unlawful overreach.
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
WIN AT THE SUPREME COURT.
Even the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority refused to greenlight the Trump Administration’s blatantly unlawful overreach.
Even the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority refused to greenlight the Trump Administration’s blatantly unlawful overreach.
The Trump Administration just passed a horrific milestone.
30 deaths in ICE custody.
People are dying because of their cruel negligence.
30 deaths in ICE custody.
People are dying because of their cruel negligence.
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Trump Administration just passed a horrific milestone.
30 deaths in ICE custody.
People are dying because of their cruel negligence.
30 deaths in ICE custody.
People are dying because of their cruel negligence.
BREAKING: 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody since Donald Trump took office, making 2025 the deadliest year in ICE detention since the early 2000s.
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
BREAKING: 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody since Donald Trump took office, making 2025 the deadliest year in ICE detention since the early 2000s.
Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are holding Medicaid and Medicare funding HOSTAGE unless hospitals comply with their partisan and anti-trans agenda.
Patients deserve better.
Patients deserve better.
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are holding Medicaid and Medicare funding HOSTAGE unless hospitals comply with their partisan and anti-trans agenda.
Patients deserve better.
Patients deserve better.
BREAKING: Trump, RFK Jr. announce they’ll cut off Medicare and Medicaid funding for any hospital that provides lifesaving gender affirming care to minors—effectively inserting the federal government in between doctors, parents, and patients.
December 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
BREAKING: Trump, RFK Jr. announce they’ll cut off Medicare and Medicaid funding for any hospital that provides lifesaving gender affirming care to minors—effectively inserting the federal government in between doctors, parents, and patients.
BREAKING: Bipartisan group of Senators introduce bill to sunset Section 230 immunity for tech companies.
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
BREAKING: Bipartisan group of Senators introduce bill to sunset Section 230 immunity for tech companies.
Dan Bongino didn’t even last a year.
Botched the initial release of the Epstein files.
Required a polygraph exam waiver.
Supervised haphazard firings and reassignments of agents.
Totally ineffective—and we’re all less safe for it.
Botched the initial release of the Epstein files.
Required a polygraph exam waiver.
Supervised haphazard firings and reassignments of agents.
Totally ineffective—and we’re all less safe for it.
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Dan Bongino didn’t even last a year.
Botched the initial release of the Epstein files.
Required a polygraph exam waiver.
Supervised haphazard firings and reassignments of agents.
Totally ineffective—and we’re all less safe for it.
Botched the initial release of the Epstein files.
Required a polygraph exam waiver.
Supervised haphazard firings and reassignments of agents.
Totally ineffective—and we’re all less safe for it.
Dan Bongino’s best hit.
"You can't tell your audience for years, go out and do stuff, talk is cheap, and then when the opportunity comes to do stuff it’s, ‘I didn’t mean me, I meant you.’ You’re kind of a fraud.
"You can't tell your audience for years, go out and do stuff, talk is cheap, and then when the opportunity comes to do stuff it’s, ‘I didn’t mean me, I meant you.’ You’re kind of a fraud.
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Dan Bongino’s best hit.
"You can't tell your audience for years, go out and do stuff, talk is cheap, and then when the opportunity comes to do stuff it’s, ‘I didn’t mean me, I meant you.’ You’re kind of a fraud.
"You can't tell your audience for years, go out and do stuff, talk is cheap, and then when the opportunity comes to do stuff it’s, ‘I didn’t mean me, I meant you.’ You’re kind of a fraud.
Protecting drug traffickers. Not you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Protecting drug traffickers. Not you.
THE TRUMP-BONDI PLAN TO TACKLE DRUG TRAFFICKING:
Pardon drug kingpins.
Divert drug enforcement agents.
Shutter key task forces.
Terminate grants.
Reduce trafficking prosecutions.
Ineffective.
Pardon drug kingpins.
Divert drug enforcement agents.
Shutter key task forces.
Terminate grants.
Reduce trafficking prosecutions.
Ineffective.
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
THE TRUMP-BONDI PLAN TO TACKLE DRUG TRAFFICKING:
Pardon drug kingpins.
Divert drug enforcement agents.
Shutter key task forces.
Terminate grants.
Reduce trafficking prosecutions.
Ineffective.
Pardon drug kingpins.
Divert drug enforcement agents.
Shutter key task forces.
Terminate grants.
Reduce trafficking prosecutions.
Ineffective.
The Trump Administration’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean are unlawful.
And the Department of Justice provided legal cover for it?
We need a hearing ASAP.
And the Department of Justice provided legal cover for it?
We need a hearing ASAP.
December 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Trump Administration’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean are unlawful.
And the Department of Justice provided legal cover for it?
We need a hearing ASAP.
And the Department of Justice provided legal cover for it?
We need a hearing ASAP.
BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Democrats press for hearing on legality of Trump’s extrajudicial killings in Caribbean Sea.
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Democrats press for hearing on legality of Trump’s extrajudicial killings in Caribbean Sea.
PAINFUL to watch. There’s a clear Trump judicial nominee loyalty test.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
PAINFUL to watch. There’s a clear Trump judicial nominee loyalty test.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
Trump nominee: Joe Biden was certified the winner.
Blumenthal: You’re not answering the question.
Nominee: I will repeat that.
Blumenthal: Don’t insult my intelligence by asking me to accept that answer.
Trump nominee: Joe Biden was certified the winner.
Blumenthal: You’re not answering the question.
Nominee: I will repeat that.
Blumenthal: Don’t insult my intelligence by asking me to accept that answer.
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
Trump nominee: Joe Biden was certified the winner.
Blumenthal: You’re not answering the question.
Nominee: I will repeat that.
Blumenthal: Don’t insult my intelligence by asking me to accept that answer.
Trump nominee: Joe Biden was certified the winner.
Blumenthal: You’re not answering the question.
Nominee: I will repeat that.
Blumenthal: Don’t insult my intelligence by asking me to accept that answer.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: I want to address the events at Brown University and the aftermath. It’s an ongoing investigation. Speculation is not helpful to the investigation. It gets people agitated and revved up. Just shut up—until we know who did it and why.
December 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: I want to address the events at Brown University and the aftermath. It’s an ongoing investigation. Speculation is not helpful to the investigation. It gets people agitated and revved up. Just shut up—until we know who did it and why.
Sen. DURBIN: ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting American citizens, even veterans. This is the type of thing we expect from totalitarian regimes that have rightfully been relegated to the trash heap of history. We cannot tolerate it.
December 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sen. DURBIN: ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting American citizens, even veterans. This is the type of thing we expect from totalitarian regimes that have rightfully been relegated to the trash heap of history. We cannot tolerate it.
Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors in the House today.
Still crickets from Senate Republicans on bringing him in.
Why are Republicans so afraid of the world hearing what he has to say?
Still crickets from Senate Republicans on bringing him in.
Why are Republicans so afraid of the world hearing what he has to say?
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors in the House today.
Still crickets from Senate Republicans on bringing him in.
Why are Republicans so afraid of the world hearing what he has to say?
Still crickets from Senate Republicans on bringing him in.
Why are Republicans so afraid of the world hearing what he has to say?
Criminal justice reform must be a continuous conversation.
Congress needs to reform outdated sentencing laws.
Congress needs to reform outdated sentencing laws.
December 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Criminal justice reform must be a continuous conversation.
Congress needs to reform outdated sentencing laws.
Congress needs to reform outdated sentencing laws.
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, GRASSLEY introduce four bipartisan criminal justice reform bills to help make our justice system fairer and communities safer.
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, GRASSLEY introduce four bipartisan criminal justice reform bills to help make our justice system fairer and communities safer.
Beneath the dignity of a president.
Making a murder about you personally is embarrassing and cruel.
Making a murder about you personally is embarrassing and cruel.
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Beneath the dignity of a president.
Making a murder about you personally is embarrassing and cruel.
Making a murder about you personally is embarrassing and cruel.
Sen. DURBIN: The Trump Administration is rounding up tens of thousands of immigrants with no criminal history. Only 2.5 percent of immigrants arrested by ICE in Illinois in September and October had been convicted of a violent crime.
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Sen. DURBIN: The Trump Administration is rounding up tens of thousands of immigrants with no criminal history. Only 2.5 percent of immigrants arrested by ICE in Illinois in September and October had been convicted of a violent crime.
Sen. WELCH: I’m concerned about this Trump nominee’s role in January 6th. He was present on January 6th at the Capitol. We already rejected Ed Martin for his ties to January 6th. It’s shocking that we’re forgetting 150 officers were injured that day.
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Sen. WELCH: I’m concerned about this Trump nominee’s role in January 6th. He was present on January 6th at the Capitol. We already rejected Ed Martin for his ties to January 6th. It’s shocking that we’re forgetting 150 officers were injured that day.
Sen. DURBIN: I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump rejecting a bipartisan immigration deal because he didn’t want immigrants from ‘s***hole’ countries. He denied it. Two Republican Senators claimed I was lying. Now, he’s bragging about it. This is racism, plain and simple.
December 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sen. DURBIN: I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump rejecting a bipartisan immigration deal because he didn’t want immigrants from ‘s***hole’ countries. He denied it. Two Republican Senators claimed I was lying. Now, he’s bragging about it. This is racism, plain and simple.