WASHINGTON – When Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wields the gavel at the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, kicking off Monday, he said, “it will be one of the most important assignments I have ever had.”
The roots of Durbin’s congressional career are in the Senate, when, as a senior at Georgetown University, the youth from East St. Louis became an intern for Sen. Paul Douglas, D-Ill.
