WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
During today's Senate Judiciary Committee nominations hearing, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned Daniel Desmond Domenico, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, and Konstantinos Ligris, nominated to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. Pointing toward Judge Domenico's record of siding with the Trump Administration's mandatory detention policy of immigrants even if they have no criminal record, Durbin first pressed Judge Domenico about his views on the Fifth Amendment before grilling Mr. Ligris on his history of inflammatory and discriminatory...