Political Quotes

“I thank the senior Senator from Minnesota for her remarks and for what brings us to the floor today. This is the first time in American history that a fundamental constitutional right has been stripped away from the American people-- and especially American women--by the Supreme Court of the United States. In Dobbs, the U.S. Supreme Court demolished 50 years of precedent-- half a century of Democratic- and Republican-appointed Justices upholding a constitutional right to privacy that has now been obliterated by the U.S. Supreme Court, a fundamental right that has been upheld over and over again by Justices appointed, as I said, by Presidents of both sides of the aisle. Madam President, if you had said to me when I was in law school in the early nineties that this day would ever come, that the U.S. Supreme Court, using a radical--a radical--method of constitutional interpretation called originalism that was invented basically when I was in law school--if you had told me that there would be a President of the United States who would appoint a majority of the Supreme Court with that radical interpretation, I would never have believed it. I would never have believed it. And that is what happened because of the Justices Donald Trump put on the Supreme Court. I want people to hear me who are Republicans in this country and this Chamber. Look it up. I know it is called originalism, but it started in the 1980s and started in the 1990s.…”