Political Quotes

“before I turn to my prepared remarks, I wish to note that the minority leader came to the floor this morning to complain, again, that the Senate is following the Biden rules on the Supreme Court vacancy. As I have said before, there is not much that makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules. So, I won't dwell on his daily missives. Most us around here have grown used to it and don't pay him much mind, especially given his record of leading a Senate where even some Members of his own party were never allowed to offer a single amendment. He voted 25 times to filibuster judicial nominees--including a Supreme Court Justice, and at the time argued there is nothing in the Constitution requiring the Senate to vote on nominees. And, of course, he will be remembered as the leader who did more damage to the Senate than any other leader in history when he invoked the so-called nuclear option in November of 2013. ``I think just from reading the cases you'll acknowledge that there's politics in legal rulings.'' That is what President Obama said last week when he visited the University of Chicago. The President met with law students and answered their questions. They asked him about judicial nominations, including his decision to make a nomination to fill Justice Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court. His responses were revealing. I agree with President Obama that too often politics seep into legal rulings.…”