Chris Coons actually said...

"I appreciate the opportunity that I have had to meet with you and to ask a number of questions."

"As a way to protect constitutional rights that were newly enacted after the Civil War."

"If that is correct and it has been relied upon in subsequent key Supreme Court cases, is Casey and this particular piece of the Casey holding indisputably settled law?"

"I view it as an important foundation of this mystery-of-life passage and the subsequent due process views it expresses, really central to Lawrence and Obergefell."