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Durbin noted that Biden’s promise to pick a black woman for the bench “is not the first time that a president has signaled what they are looking for in a nominee....“They’re all going to face the same close scrutiny. This is a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. And I just hope that those who are critical of the president’s selection aren’t doing it for personal reasons.”
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Durbin is clueless. He just spouts rubbish. He has the look of a rich rural snob.
Racists see race in everything. Always.
Not about race, it’s about gross progressive politics.
Senator Joe Biden stated that if Bush chose Brown to replace O’Connor, the Democrats would filibuster her nomination, stating that circuit court judges, unlike Supreme Court justices, “don’t get to make new law.”
Janice Roger’s Brown, a black federal judge with impeccable credentials was rejected by Biden, freshman senator Obama, and senator Durbin from Illinois. Biden threatened to filibuster her appointment. Two of most racist and disgusting politicians known, Biden and Durbin.
When Dick Durbin speaks, nobody listens.
Wasn’t there some controversy around Durbin’s handling of the Miguel Estrada nomination process during the GWB administration? Something to the effect that Durbin wanted to keep Estrada off the Court of Appeals because he was Latino and if he ever came up for nomination to the Supreme Court, it would be difficult for Dems to oppose a Latino.