“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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