Ill., questioned U.S. attorney general nominee Pam Bondi in a confirmation hearing Wednesday held by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Dick Durbin expressed doubts about U.S. Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi in a series of posts on X Friday morning.

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) grilled Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, about her representation of the incoming president and his persistent denials that he ...

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“To my knowledge, Donald Trump has never acknowledged the legal results of the 2020 election," Durbin said. "Are you prepared to say today, under oath, without reservation, that Donald Trump lost the presidential contest to Joe Biden in 2020?”

There has been sharp reaction on Tuesday to the decision by President Donald Trump to pardon 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol four years ago.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said the former Trump administration official had “neither the experience, the judgment or the temperament” to lead federal law enforcement.

Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2028, though, and some of the newest Democratic stars are doing things differently. Take Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who has won two races in a red-leaning state: He voted for stricter detention policies for undocumented immigrants last week but has also led the charge on voting rights and weakening the filibuster.

Here are five key takeaways from the first day of Bondi’s confirmation hearing: Accusing President Joe Biden of coordinating political prosecutions, Bondi said that she would only bring cases based on “facts and law” and said she has not discussed starting investigations of Trump’s enemies with the president-elect.

In a speech Wednesday on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, outlined how Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) joins Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC to discuss his reactions to the pardoning of Jan. 6 rioters who ‘unmercifully’ beat Capitol Police, ‘several within an inch of their life’.