WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks in today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on birthright citizenship as President Trump continues his threats against it.
Last month, Durbin, along with U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), led a group of 216 House and Senate Democrats in filing a bicameral amicus brief (https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-house-democrats-file-brief-to-supreme-court-defending-birthright-citizenship-against-trump-attacks) standing up for the essential constitutional principle of birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, currently ...