WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called on his colleagues to vote against the nomination of Todd Blanche to be U.S. Attorney General. During his remarks, Durbin recalled the second day of Mr. Blanche's nomination hearing, when the Committee convened an outside panel of witnesses to discuss his fitness to serve in this position. One of the witnesses Durbin invited was Dani Bensky-a dance teacher and mother-who was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein and others when she was just 17 years old.
"A group of about a dozen Epstein survivors and their loved ones s...