Dick Durbin: Antifa courthouse attacks not ‘equivalent’ to white supremacist threat

Published March 2, 2021 4:34pm ET



Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin argued that white supremacist violence is a bigger domestic threat than antifa violence on a Portland, Oregon, federal courthouse.

Durbin, an Illinois senator and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the point during opening remarks in a hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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