Sen. Dick Durbin says Kavanaugh confirmation 'would shake the confidence of millions of Americans' [View all]

Illinois’ Democratic senators again blasted Republican President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick as unfit to serve, as Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Friday moved closer to a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday said Kavanaugh’s confirmation “would shake the confidence of millions of Americans and the integrity of our Supreme Court.”

Durbin has been an outspoken opponent of the process to confirm Kavanaugh, trying to push him in a high-wattage public hearing last week to endorse an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations by Christine Blasey Ford.

“We have to think about what it would mean if Judge Kavanaugh were to be confirmed to the Supreme Court with credible sexual assault allegations against him,” Durbin said from the Senate floor on Friday. “Specifically what it would mean to the millions of women across America who were survivors of sexual assault, women who have been scared to come forward with their stories for fear they would be mocked, ridiculed, and shunned.”

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