US Senator Durbin vows continued support for De Lima
Published February 1, 2021 7:46am A United States senator now occupying key positions in the US Senate has vowed to continuously support Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, who is currently detained on drug-related charges. In a tweet on Sunday, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin described De Lima s arrest as unjust & politically-motivated. De Lima is a vocal critic of the Duterte administration. And as the four year anniversary of your unjust & politically-motivated arrest approaches, I want to assure you that I will never stop supporting your fight for human rights in the Philippines, Durbin said.
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Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who is currently the longest-serving member of the Senate, isn t shy about his love for the
Batman franchise. The President pro tempore has cited the Caped Crusader as influencing him all throughout his life, sparking an interest in reading from a young age. If his face looks familiar, it s because he’s actually appeared in five
Batman movies.
Batman Forever. In
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, he was even on the receiving end of an explosive as Senator Purrington. Leahy joked to
Roll Call in 2016 (via
CNN): “I explain to everybody that getting blown up was OK ’cause my wife’s a registered nurse. She put me back together and I never missed a vote.”
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He also voiced a politician in an episode of
Batman: The Animated Series.
In the forward for
80 Years of Batman, he wrote “The Batman prevailed through superior intellect and detective skills, through the freedoms afforded by great wealth and through sheer will, … Not superpowers, but skill, science and rationality.” Leahy has donated all of his acting earnings and royalties to charity, with most funds going to the very same library where he fell in love with comics as a child.
Now that’s some everyday heroism we can get behind.
(via CNN, image: Warner Bros.)