Political Quotes

“soon we will be taking up the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the DC District Court. I oppose the nomination. This is why the nomination should not be confirmed. Nominations to the DC Circuit deserve special scrutiny. The Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, hears cases affecting all Americans. This court frequently is the last stop for cases involving Federal statutes and regulations. Many view this court as second in importance only to our Supreme Court. As we all know, judges who sit on the DC Circuit are frequently considered for the Supreme Court. So there is a lot at stake with any nominee appointed to the DC Circuit. Ms. Halligan has an activist record. There are additional concerns regarding her judicial philosophy and her approach to interpreting the Constitution. The second amendment, for instance, in 2003, Ms. Halligan gave a speech where she discussed her role in suing gun manufacturers for criminal acts committed with handguns. At the time, Congress was debating the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act or, as most of us called it at the time, the gun liability bill. Those lawsuits, of course, were based on meritless legal theories and were specifically designed to drive gun manufacturers out of business. As it turns out, while many of us were fighting in Congress to stop these nuisance lawsuits, Ms. Halligan was pursuing this precise type of litigation, based on the same bogus legal theories on behalf of the State of New York. In New York v.…”