Sen. Dick Durbin, currently the Senate Democratic whip and top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, announced he will not seek re-election in 2026. The 80-year-old senator was first elected to the Senate in 1996 and before that, served in the House of Representatives for seven terms starting in 1982. Durbin is among four Democratic Senators whose terms expire next year deciding not to run again, including
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Gary Peters
- Tina Smith
. His departure marks a significant change for the Democratic leadership.
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Lucem News Editor’s Opinion: After nearly 30 years of pushing progressive politics and rubber-stamping activist judges, Dick Durbin is finally calling it quits. Translation: he saw the writing on the wall with the Trump MAGA tidal wave and it spelled “retirement or irrelevance”. Democrats are losing an entrenched foot soldier of the swamp, and now the Judiciary Committee might actually have a shot at doing more than just confirming Biden’s bench full of social justice warriors-in-robes.
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