U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faced a tough schedule with his recent trip to Chicago, but there was a special reward waiting at the end of the day.
I was invited to join the attorney general on his July 22 trip to Chicago. As fate would have it, accepting that invitation meant missing a senator’s ultimate reward: President Joe Biden scheduled the signing ceremony for my bill to sustain the Crime Victims Fund at the same time as the flight. I felt it was more important to join Attorney General Garland. The purpose of his trip was to announce new initiatives to deal with gun violence in Chicago.
Read the full op-ed from Senator Dick Durbin in the Chicago Tribune here.
