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Channel GOP · Hearing · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Dick Durbin asks federal judicial nominees how many jury trials they've led.

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At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nominations, Sen. Dick Durbin tells the nominees they graduated law school only eight years ago, less time as lawyers than any judicial nominee the committee has considered in ten years. He says two of them have never tried a case, then asks how many civil jury trials each has handled as lead or co-counsel. One nominee says he has tried a case as co-counsel in front of a judge but has never handled a jury trial.

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Sen. Dick Durbin
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hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee, judicial nominations
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you each graduated from law school only eight years ago. You've been lawyers for less time than any judicial nominee considered by this committee in the last ten years. Mr. Adkitson, you have fewer than five years of litigation experience. Mr. Axed and Mr. Kelly, neither of you have ever tried a case. Do you know what a federal district courtroom looks like? It's usually a venue for a trial. Most of you have little or no experience with trials. How many civil jury trials have each of you participated in as lead or co -counsel? The three of you. Senator Durbin, my practice, I've tried a case as co -counsel in front of a judge. I haven't handled a jury trial. That was a bankruptcy case?

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