Richard Blumenthal

The Supreme Court needs to do its job; it needs to issue signed opinions, not the shadow docket.

The simple fact of the matter is, Judge Jackson, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

I think he said that the dissent that he is proudest of was in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District.

The Court's crisis of legitimacy is the result of divisions within the Court, the polarization and politicization that has drawn lines.

I look forward, as I hope many of us do, to a bipartisan majority in support of your candidacy.

It enhances the dominance of just a few of those tech companies, just a few of the corporations.

I hope that you will urge your colleagues... to support a code of ethics.

I am a supporter of Senator Grassley's Sunshine in the Courtroom Act as well as Senator Durbin's Cameras in the Courtroom Act.

You will make the Court look more like America but also think more like America.

I think we should all feel that excitement and pride in this moment, and the extraordinary journey that has brought you here.

The people of Ukraine are fighting for it. They are dying in their neighborhoods and streets and their homes.

Much of America is watching these proceedings on a split screen. On one hand they are literally seeing the death and destruction in Ukraine, Russia's brutal, barbaric assault on individual rights, basic freedoms that we often take for…

I think we have an obligation in the Congress to set forth a code of ethics.

I feel very strongly--I know that a number of us on the Committee agree--that more transparency, more visibility is important for the public to understand what goes on in the courtroom.

There are a lot of people who are book-smart. There are not as many people who are person-smart, and you are both.

Access to the courts should be available to everyone.

I do not know what Congress meant to do in this kind of situation, because this law was written at a time when none of this stuff now existed.

We have an obligation to preserve them and my hope is that your nomination will help us do so.

Thank you to President Biden for his vision and wisdom and courage in nominating you.

Historic is a word often overused in this place where a lot of history is made but today seems, truly, to merit it.

On March 14, 2022, I was unable to cast a vote on rollcall vote No. 79, the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar No. 726, the nomination of Shalanda D. Young of Louisiana, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget. I…

Gasoline for cars is an essential for certain basic living requirements. And that`s why the federal government should be suspending this gas tax.

We are prepared to fight, make no mistake. We are prepared to fight ferociously and use all the options we have to get this job done. It`s a job that will get done. This nominee will be confirmed.

I have 1 request for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committees…

I want to just finish by thanking Senator Casey for his leadership on this entire area of caregiving to our seniors and elderly.