Political Quotes

“as august and impressive as this setting is, what is happening today is not normal. We have said it numerous times, but we should say it again because we need to prevent it from becoming normal. In fact, what is happening today is sad, surreal, even shocking. We are 8 days away from an election. In an unprecedented rush to confirm a Supreme Court nominee, we are taking the place of the next President and the next Senate in confirming the next Justice, even as the American people are denied a voice and a say in that decision. What is happening here is not normal because our Republican colleagues have explicitly broken their word. We have submitted to the Judiciary Committee quotes from 17 of them promising that there would be no confirmation of a next Justice during an election year. It is not normal because, in fact, historically, no Justice has been confirmed after July in an election year. It is not normal because we are here, in the midst of a pandemic, confirming a Justice who would potentially decimate our healthcare system now in the middle of a healthcare crisis. It is not normal because the administration has said, as recently as Sunday, through its Chief of Staff, there is no control over this pandemic. This abject surrender is shameful and disgraceful. And it is not normal because the American people have a right to expect from us in this body that we would address that pandemic and that we would pass another pandemic relief bill.…”