WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has called for all lawmakers “to bring down the temperature” and help unify the country in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
“I came of age in the 1960s, we experienced a number of horrific assassinations — including President John Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a Tuesday hearing for the Judiciary panel.
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“We’re going through a similar period of division and political violence,” the Illinois Democrat went on. “All of us in public life, on both sides of the aisle, have a responsibility to bring down the temperature and unite the American people.
“Let’s be clear: Republicans are not Nazis, and Democrats are not evil,” he added.
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