Political Quotes

“I commend the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his leadership on tonight's topic. I also associate myself with his comments, as well as the comments of Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. Congresswoman Norton has been a steward on the issue of judicial appointments in the United States Congress for many decades, and it is an honor to follow her tonight in her leadership against the Trump administration's attempt to stack the courts with extreme rightwing political allies. Just as President Trump has attacked our Nation's free press, just as he has attacked our intelligence agency, this President is now targeting our Nation's third branch of government, our treasured court system. We cannot let President Trump destroy yet another institution of American democracy. The importance of a fair and nonpartisan court system cannot be overestimated. It is our Supreme Court, overall, that decided Brown v. Board of Education, the case that ended segregation in America's schools. It was our courts which struck down voter suppression laws, like poll taxes that freed and allowed lots and lots of African Americans in my home State of Alabama to vote. It was the Supreme Court that protected the work of the free press and our Nation's newspapers when President Nixon attempted to silence them. And it was our Supreme Court which struck down discriminatory State laws prohibiting interracial and gay marriage.…”