Political Quotes

“I, too, wish to spend some time talking about the confirmation and upcoming vote on Judge Neil Gorsuch. As many of my colleagues have noted, this is certainly one of the most important responsibilities we have in this body--to confirm the next Supreme Court Justice. As the Presiding Officer noted in remarks made a few days ago about Judge Gorsuch, he is an exceptionally well-qualified candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. I will go briefly into his bio. First of all, he has a sterling academic reputation and credentials. He graduated from Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford. He clerked for two Supreme Court Justices. He worked at the Justice Department. Very importantly--and we are not hearing a lot about it from our colleagues on the other side--he was unanimously confirmed for a U.S. court of appeals job for the Tenth Circuit in 2006. Senators such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden all voted for him, as well as many of my colleagues in this body on the other side of the aisle who are still serving. He is a westerner. We know that right now the U.S. Supreme Court, with the possible exception of Justice Kennedy, has no westerners. Geographical diversity on the Court is very important. This morning, my colleague Senator Murkowski talked about how the current Supreme Court is occupied by Justices who have spent almost their entire lives in the Boston, New York, DC corridor. That is not America. That doesn't represent the whole country.…”