WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the U.S. Department of Education must approve $11 billion in borrower defense claims for more than 170,000 students who were defrauded by predatory for-profit colleges:
"It's no surprise that a President who peddled 'Trump University' as a prestigious institution would side with predatory for-profit colleges while defrauded students drowned in debt.
"Finally-after years of the Trump Administration making excuse after excuse in support of for-profit colleges-this court ruling is delivering justice to the h...