What you are seeing here is the confluence that occurs by operation of the Constitution between law and politics.

Some of us have been alarmed by Executive overreach and the threat it poses to the separation of powers.

It would be unfair for anyone to state or to imply that you then are responsible somehow for the expressive conduct of third parties.

I find it striking and very revealing that one of the first calls that Judge Gorsuch made when he received this nomination was to Merrick Garland, his friend.

A judge's job is not to protect the little guy or the big guy.

In fact, it does not get much more little guy than a David going against a Goliath that is the Federal Government.

the confirmation process has become political.

Judge Gorsuch's opinions reflect the principle Justice Scalia spent his career defending, that in a democracy the people's elected representatives, not judges, get to decide what the laws should be and what laws we should have.

The people in this country are sovereign, as Lincoln said. It is a government by the people, for the people.

it is the people who are sovereign, and the people's branch is the legislative branch.

You really need to take a long look in the mirror if one day you find yourself attacking nuns.

You are not there to promote a personal agenda or a political agenda, and you are not there to grandstand.

When our judges do not respect this limited power, they take from the American people the right to govern themselves.

Our constitutional republic is also designed around the notion that the people, acting through their representatives, retain ultimate authority to govern.

I do not think it would ever be fair to say that someone litigating against the Federal Government is anything other than the little guy.

We are entitled to protection, too, under that law.

I have seen all kinds of judges come before this Committee, and there have been a number of great ones.

If the law can change so easily, not through bicameralism and presentment to the President... where is the due process?