It is to address things in the United States, not what is going on in other places.

I don't agree with the bulk of the decisions that you argued in front of the Supreme Court, at least on the controversial ones.

I am anxious to express my strong recommendations for Justice Deborah Cook, Jeffrey Sutton, both of whom the President nominated.

Deborah has served with distinction on Ohio's Supreme Court since her election in 1994 and reelection in the year 2000.

So as I understand it, you argued that Congress does have the authority to enforce the Bill of Rights using Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.

It is my pleasure, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, to introduce to this Committee today two very distinguished Ohioans.

So in that case, with regard to your position, Senator Schumer's concerns were unfounded.

I think we go down and start down a very dangerous path when we probe deeply into the clients and the causes that nominees have either advocated or represented.

Will you follow the law? Will you follow the Constitution? And will you follow the precedent?

I think it would have a chilling effect on the practice of law as we know it in this country.

Senator DeWine. I want to go back to the City of Boerne case and the discussion that you had with Senator Schumer a few minutes ago.

So being a dissenter is not always the worst thing in the world.

I think that is legitimate. But if we extend it to the natural consequence of that discussion and really say, no, we can't put that person on the bench because they advocated that position, I think that is a very, very serious mistake.

The Ohio Supreme Court simply is not well regarded around the country, and it's the meddling tendencies of this four-judge super-legislature that deserves most of the blame.

I think that is, you know, a point that there is some concern about, that that could slip to a further period of time.

this is a cost. This is a deep cost.

OK. So your distinction is based strictly upon the physiology of the actual cell, and it is not on any, 'We think there's an important developmental stage, that human life begins after 7 days,' or anything of that nature.

there is a profound issue here of human dignity, which I know you have written and thought about for a number of years.