Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) on Feb. 1 denied a request from Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin to hold a Feb. 8 confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general. Durbin had requested the Feb. 8 hearing in a letter and Graham responded with a missive of his own. Graham told his Democratic colleague that holding a hearing for Garland would not make sense on Feb. 8 since the Senate is preparing to hold the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump the next day on Feb. 9. “The Senate is about to conduct its first-ever impeachment trial of a former president, and only its fourth trial of a president, incumbent or not. Under the procedure the Senate has adopted, Donald Trump’s trial is set to start on February 9. But you want us to rush through Judge Garland’s hearing on February 8,” Graham wrote. “An …