Jeff Sessions

The law was never not in force.

Congress frankly was very frustrated at the law schools. We passed four or five versions of the Solomon amendment to get around every maneuver that occurred on the campuses.

I would have to classify you as someone in the theme of the legal progressive.

I think we do have this national discussion going on about a revival of progressivism.

He went on at some length demonstrating that and then called them 'touchy-feely twaddle.'

He believed there were two great Senates--the Roman Senate and the American Senate--and he wanted ours to be the greatest ever.

Ms. Kagan has less real legal experience of any nominee in at least 50 years.

It is not a coronation, as I have said, but a confirmation process.

I do believe it is healthy to have this panel and have people come before the country and be on C-SPAN and present official positions before this Senate, and I think it is a healthy part of democracy and I appreciate the Chairman allowing…

I would offer, for the record, a recent op-ed or article on National Review Online concerning General Kagan's abortion history or analysis of that.

I found it difficult to understand how, when she did not meet those qualifications, that the Committee reached the highest rating for the highest score in the land.

We also clearly saw that Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Ginsberg want to overturn Heller.

Now, some may fear that in the future, an activist Supreme Court may overturn these landmark decisions.

I do too. I thought that, you know, if you believe like Justice Kennedy has said, or Justice Ginsberg, or Stevens, why not defend them.

Well, thank you, for you and your leadership on the abortion issue. It is a matter of legitimate interest by millions of Americans who deeply are concerned about what they think is a procedure that is indecent and does not speak well of…

I think the vast majority of Americans are pleased with the Court's ruling in both the District of Columbia v. Heller, that was in 2008, as well as McDonald v. City of Chicago earlier this week.

I learned so much more in the practice of law about how this magnificent, beautiful system operates than I did in law school.

I think it gave the parties ample opportunity to both brief and argue the question.

I felt your book on terrorism was a sea or an island of insanity maybe and a sea of some hysteria around.

I appreciate your testimony and respect it.

I could not agree more. I am afraid that is so, and it has not gone away, like some justices thought, and it is still with us.

I do know that Congress felt that the statute was not artfully drawn and rewrote it so it would be clear.

I think the other witnesses' testimony that the military wasn't the one that should have been blamed, those in Congress who voted the law are the ones responsible for that law.

Congratulations on moving the Congress to alter the law, I think, in a way that will not allow that kind of thing to happen.

It would therefore be unfair to accuse the court of an activist ruling in that case?