WASHINGTON – Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin called on the Senate Majority Republicans to "do their job" Tuesday and hold hearings for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
"Don't deny the president that won by five million votes over Mitt Romney" to have an opportunity to nominate his choice to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat, Durbin said on the Senate floor Tuesday:
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