The hysteria around Supreme Court confirmation hearings is coming from the fact that we have a fundamental misunderstand...
The Supreme Court is increasingly a substitute political battleground in America.
the accumulation of all power in one body is the very definition of tyranny.
It is not fair to this witness or any other witness in any other proceeding anywhere to not give the witness a copy and ...
there is no reason why it should not be something that we can discuss in public.
when you create an entity within the Federal Government, within the executive branch, it is not accountable to anyone
If they are just politicians, then the people should have power, and they should not have lifetime appointments.
I believe he actually is likely to be better than many are saying, even on this panel, on things like voting rights.
Judge Kavanaugh understands and is focused on the principle that a judge is a servant of the law, not a maker of it.
We are not dealing in a lawless environment here. We are dealing here with the Presidential Records Act.
If there were some perfect group of people, we would put all the power in that one body, but because we are imperfect, p...
We are just doing what the law allows us here to do.
I think that all maybe stems from the same philosophical understanding that we are imperfect beings, and that we divide ...
we are shirking our own responsibility because we are making lawmakers rather than laws, and we are also consolidating i...
the fact that there is so much angst over a single nominee, a single judicial nominee, tells you everything you need to ...
In our system, the legislative branch is supposed to be the center of our politics.
Well, it seems to me he is precisely the type of person we want on the Bench.
these principles apply. They are principles to which we have sworn an oath, and they are principles that I think we woul...
