Richard Blumenthal: “I am here to oppose these measures because of my respect for the principles of sovereignty and the practical impact of…”

There’s no excuse for this administration disobeying the law and withholding this funding.

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.

After all the years I’ve spent working on this issue, I could never for one minute trust the NCAA to police itself.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.