Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he’s not sure about how much support to expect for federal appeals court nominee Michael Delaney, who’s under fire over his representation of a prep school in litigation with a student victim of sexual violence.
“Well, I’m not going to take anything for granted. We customarily advance the president’s nominees and he’s going to have that opportunity,” Durbin told reporters on Tuesday. “But I haven’t whipped the committee person to person, which I want to do, nor have they taken it to the caucus. So we don’t know what the actual vote count ...