During a Thursday Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, Democrat Chairman Dick Durbin forbade GOP Senators from speaking out about two Biden judicial nominees ahead of roll call votes. On the same day, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn accused Durbin of blocking a request she had put forth to subpoena the flight logs of disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“I think this deserves some commentary given the nature of the nominee and I’d like to ask to speak on the nomination,” one senator said.
Blackburn added, “Mr. Chairman, I would also like to speak on the nomination.”
Durbin replied, “I understand what you’d like to do, but I’m saying that in fairness, we’ve debated these nominees twice, I ask the clerk to call the roll.”
The room erupted, with senators questioning why they weren’t allowed to speak before the roll call.
“You’re going to have a lot of consequences coming if you go down this road,” Republican Senator Tom Cotton said. “I’ve cautioned a lot of you.”
“So you’re telling us to shut up? You want us to shut up? Is that what you’re saying?” Blackburn said.
One Senator asked those who were not able to speak previously on the issue to raise their hand, adding, “We’ve got several folks, Mr. Chairman, who didn’t have a chance to speak.”
“We want to tell you again why these nominees are awful,” another senator added.
Hellbound and Down 
Maybe Dickie Turbin’s name is in the flight log.
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