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“God’s smiling on the South Side for this great coming out party,” Sen. Dick Durbin told reporters near the start of the parade route.

Major League Baseball, exempt from antitrust laws for nearly 100 years, has led to “an attitude of many of these baseball clubs that they are above the law,” Durbin said.

Even as Major League Baseball reached an agreement Thursday to end a 99-day lockout of its players, one of the highest-ranking members of the U.S. Senate said he intends to look into a century-old Supreme Court ruling that enables the league to operate as a lawful monopoly.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has taken the first step toward confirmation in the Senate

The Illinois senator, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the committee will start its "formal investigation" on Friday with a confirmation hearing to be held "within the next several weeks."

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Sen. Lindsey Graham is among a handful of Republicans declaring a willingness to back President Joe Biden's yet-to-be-announced Supreme Court nominee

President Joe Biden is meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee leaders as Democrats work to gain significant GOP support for the president’s Supreme Court nominee

White House dismisses Putin’s criticism of US and allies while Blinken urges Russia to pursue diplomatic path in Ukraine

Biden’s potential picks are "extraordinary people," who have already been ground-breaking "firsts," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Pressure campaign was fired by fear of repeat of disaster when Republicans replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg