WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee; U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee; U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and U.S. Representatives Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-07), Debbie Dingell (D-MI-06), and Lateefah Simon (D-CA-12) today led 100 Members of Congress in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to rescind its June 18 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion that undermines decades of pro...