Political Quotes

“I appreciate so much the Senator from Hawaii's perspective on this really important issue. And it is a really important issue. I mean, there has been some discussion on the other side about how for 50 years, there has been a consensus in this Chamber about how we treat these issues, ignoring completely what the Dobbs decision has done to this country, which is to strip a 50-year constitutional right--to strip a 50-year constitutional freedom--from the American people. It is the first time since Reconstruction that a right has been stripped from the American people by the Supreme Court. It has been a 50-year crusade--an agenda by the allies of the people across this aisle to accomplish that. It was a lot earlier today that I heard: Well, I didn't learn that in law school, I didn't learn that in law school, about the First Amendment in their debate about TikTok. Well, when I was in law school, that is when originalism was injected into the bloodstream of conservative legal thought in this country. It had not existed before. It was something that was invented by Justice Scalia when he was a law professor, and it was grabbed onto by a lot of people on the other side of the aisle to justify a deeply conservative view of economic history in America. I would ask my colleagues to allow me to give the rest of my speech before they use profanity on the floor of the Senate to describe what I am talking about. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will be in order.…”