Barbara Boxer: “If we are forbidden as human beings, let alone the head of a bar association, to comment on what voters have voted on…”

“If we are forbidden as human beings, let alone the head of a bar association, to comment on what voters have voted on and to talk about ways the initiative process can be improved--and I am going to put into the Record her remarks on that point because she has such respect for the initiative process. She has thought about ways to improve it--if we are gagged as human beings from commenting on what the voters have voted on, this is a sad state of affairs for this country. So I want to talk about what Senator Hatch has said about Margaret Morrow. I think it is important. He said it himself quite eloquently at the beginning of this debate. But I want to reiterate because he sent a letter out to all of our colleagues, and he talked about the comment that Margaret Morrow made that has been so taken out of context by my colleagues. He said that the committee, the Judiciary Committee, studied Margaret Morrow's response to make a decision as to whether she was an activist judge, and they concluded that her explanation was in keeping with the theme of her speech.”