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I decide cases from a neutral posture. I evaluate the facts and I interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me without fear or favor, consistent with my judicial oath.

The Supreme Court has established it's an individual right.

You served on the board of a school that teaches kindergartners, 5-year-old children, that they can choose their gender and teaches them about so-called white privilege.

It is important to them to have a Supreme Court that is going to protect parental rights to teach these children as parents see fit.

I found it astounding that it teaches kindergarteners--five-year-old children, and I've got grandchildren--and they teach them that they can choose their gender.

You talk about preserving our form of government. You talk about preserving equal access, equal justice.

Moms and dads are very concerned about this progressive agenda that is being pushed in some of our public schools.

Well, they have said things they thought were nasty. But it was not nasty to me because I have no choice in the fact that I am bald.

Reclaiming my time. I am just as good a human being, just as smart, just as effective, and just as caring with or without hair; and the fact is it is discrimination, and it is ignorance. African Americans have been discriminated against in…

one of the challenges we face in this era of great power competition is identifying unique threats before they escalate. When it comes to Russia and Ukraine, these threats have come into full focus. Vladimir Putin took off his statesman…

I want to congratulate the University of Tennessee's basketball programs on making their respective 2022 NCAA tournaments. By punching their tickets to the big dance, both the men's and women's teams built on UT athletics' long history of…

This morning I went to a breakfast where I heard the thoughts of Miss Sheila Bair. Miss Bair is a Republican. She describes herself as a Midwest Republican who worked on Senator Dole's staff for 8 years. She is a former assistant secretary…

As a member, co-chairman of the Helsinki Commission, I want to compliment Mr. Cardin and Mr. Wicker and their work on this bill, bipartisan, from the Senate. What Russia has done with Ukraine is immoral. It is illegal. It is against the…

targeting HBCUs, especially at the beginning of Black History Month, is nothing short of despicable.

I greatly appreciate Chairman Johnson for heading this up day after day. I just wonder, have the Democrats been to the gas pumps lately? I used to love to go to the gas pumps and talk to folks to see what was going on. Now, honestly, I am…

I proudly represent Middle Tennessee, including the Nashville International Airport (BNA), the best small-city airport in the world.

last week, the Senate passed a $1.5 trillion funding bill that the Democratic majority insisted was full of must-pass, got-to-have-it, can't-live-without-it provisions that the American people were demanding. Unfortunately, the reality of…

I do want to thank my colleague from Florida for doing the right thing for our partners in Ukraine by bringing up this supplemental appropriation for its own vote--its own vote. But this isn't something that he should have had to do. It is…