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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

The Court struck down bipartisan laws limiting campaign contributions that went back more than a century and opened a flow of money and potential corruption that has dominated our politics.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

I have come to the conclusion that originalism is used as a tool and a justification to restrict the rights of vulnerable Americans.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

Some have even gone so far as to conflate the questions we are raising about your record in the course of our advise and consent responsibilities with Donald Trump's abhorrent attacks on Federal judges.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

But by tilting the political playing field so heavily to toward corporations and against individuals, has the Court not impacted the composition of who is in Congress and made it, therefore, even harder for Congress to take meaningful…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

And after the obstacles to voting we have seen since Shelby County, we now know that Congress got it right, that the evidence showed a continuing need for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and the Supreme Court got it wrong when it…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

Well, clearly, elections have an impact on the composition of the Court because we have you. We do not have Judge Merrick Garland.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

If corporations are able to spend unfettered money on American elections, what is there to stop a foreign company from funneling money into our elections through its American subsidiary?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

if judges are going to work this hard to strain the text of a law to undermine the purpose, which was for the safety and that a driver who made a decision based on that would not be fired, I think that makes it pretty tough for any laws…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

Will the Court protect our land, water, our earth, or gut decades of environmental regulations?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

It is about LGBTQ Americans who want the same rights as everyone else.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

It is about the working poor who are one paycheck away from being on the streets.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

During our meeting, I was encouraged when you said that the purpose of Article III of the Constitution was to protect the rights of the minority through access to the courts.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

Will the Court uphold a woman's constitutional right to choose or upend decades of legal precedent to overturn Roe v. Wade?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

We are seeing States and localities put voting restrictions on the books that not only have a discriminatory effect.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

So my question really was whether you think that, on the Supreme Court, he would continue a very restrained view of workers' rights.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

We have seen the tremendous, in my view, damage the Court can do to our political process when it tilts the electoral process so heavily against ordinary Americans.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

If President Eisenhower pursued the same policies President Trump would like to, it is very possible I would not be here today.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Mar 19, 2017

It is about Muslim Americans who are victims in a renewed wave of hate crimes asking for protection from the courts.

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