Bendery

"The prices here would shoot up, including for heating and food. But pensions here are tiny, and there's no work," Dmitry told me, from Bendery in the buffer zone on the edge of Transnistria.

“I think it’s sad that they’re getting worse and worse,” she told HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery.

"Progressive judicial groups are practically shouting from the mountaintops to ditch blue slips," Bendery continued.

Chris Kang, the chief counsel for Demand Justice, told Bendery that if Durbin refuses to "reform the outdated blue slip tradition," he is endorsing "the worst kind of extreme Republican obstructionism."

"Democrats returned more than 130 blue slips during the Trump admin, confirming 84 district judges in states with at least one or two Dem senators," Bendery wrote on Twitter.