Senate Dems call on Biden to close Guantanamo to advance 'universal rights'
Sen. Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wrote a letter along with 22 other Democrats to joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Biden<. The lawmakers said closing the prison that was established to detain suspected terrorists after 9/11 was a “critical step” in Biden’s pledge to “put universal rights and strengthening democracy at the center of…