Dick Durbin, speaking at a Senate judicial nominations hearing, says loyalty is what matters to the President as judges he nominated in his first term have been ruling against him. Durbin says Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered the White House to restore credentials for three press outlets whose reporters the President had barred, and that Trump then branded Kelly "disloyal."
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That is not a matter of concern to the President. He only cares if they will be loyal. That loyalty is particularly important to President Trump at a time when jurists nominated during the first Trump administration have been ruling against the President, including dozens who have ruled against this administration's illegal, mandatory immigration detention. Just last week, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee and former counsel to the chairman of this committee, ordered the White House to immediately restore credentials for three press outlets after the President barred the reporters from the White House. Unsurprisingly, President Trump branded Judge Kelly as, quote, disloyal. This is new.
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