If you are confirmed, you would be the first ever Federal public defender to sit on the Court.
Will a Justice protect the rights of the people, the rights of State legislatures?
I urge my colleagues to remember his words about how the Court must consider the effect of its actions on people's lives.
The right to counsel is a fundamental part of our constitutional system, even for the most unpopular defendants.
Judge Jackson, I'm certain your capacity to inspire through force of reason will be on display here this week.
Will a Justice vote to defend your Second Amendment rights?
I think physical presence matters, not just because I see it through a constitutional lens, but because human interaction matters.
We don't do our jobs well on the Veterans' Affairs Committee when we are doing it virtually.
If you believe it is unconstitutional, again, it is mind-boggling to me that you would utilize it.
I think it is vitally important that we get back to really operating this House in a way that is traditional.
I have never voted by proxy either. I wrote the rule--but I have been lucky, right? I didn't get COVID.
By moving in the way that we have, we have some committees that do this and some committees that do that.
I am against proxy voting. But I think the argument needs to be made.
We got rid of it because it was bad.
This is a process that was about more control.
There is no proxy voting in Ukraine, so it is clearly astonishing.
I don't like picking winners and losers, but my goodness, if we keep subsidizing an industry that needs $650 billion a year to stay competit...
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