Richard Blumenthal

Describing those purposes as ephemeral and generic.

The purpose of those laws is to protect workers' health and safety.

The Second Amendment does not provide the right to carry a concealed firearm.

No right being absolute, public safety being a legitimate consideration, is one with which you would agree?

Nothing in Heller was intended to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill.

The Second Amendment is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever for any purpose.

I have long been an advocate of commonsense, sensible measures to combat gun violence, going back to my earliest days as State Attorney General.

No right is absolute under the Constitution. Is that a correct statement?

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

But some more than others.

It was decided in 1965, and that was its holding, and I am asking you do you believe it was the right result?

It is a great and important decision.

It is an embarrassment in our history.

I hope that you will be as persuasive as possible after you make up your own mind and hope that you will decide that these rules make sense.

I happen to think this kind of process is a lot healthier for our democracy than the 90 minutes...

I feel that cameras in the courtroom, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, would be a very good thing.

You have been less forthcoming, less direct and specific than I hoped.

I am pro-life. The judges will be pro-life.

Respect for the courts is important.

The ultimate test of the rule of law is whether the Government can lose in its own courts and accept the judgments of those courts.

No person is above the law, including the President of the United States.

And during the campaign, a completely different Federal judge, born in this country, he said could not rule fairly on his case because the judge was 'a Mexican.'

Do you recall that tweet?

He was the elephant in the room with us then. I think he is the elephant in the room with us now.

There is an elephant in the room with us today.