Political Quotes

“I oppose her nomination because of a very troubling development that I see in several nominations. At some point I think it is important to draw the line and say that the President has got to be very careful not to nominate people who have--and in this case who have not--taken, in my view, a strong enough position against applying foreign law to interpret the American Constitution or to interpret American laws that apply to cases before them. We have seen this before in nominees, in then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. When she had her Supreme Court hearing, several of us on this side of the aisle raised the question with respect to her position on foreign law. In many respects she said: Don't worry, I won't apply foreign law. Then in one of the cases in her first term as a Supreme Court Justice she did exactly that.”