Your nomination turned out to be a testing ground for conspiracy theories and culture war theories.
Dick Durbin
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Richard Durbin, commonly known as Dick Durbin, is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he has held various leadership roles, including Senate Majority Whip. Durbin has been a prominent advocate for issues such as healthcare reform, immigration policy, and gun control. He has also played a significant role in negotiations on budget and appropriations matters in the Senate.
The senator from Missouri has in his tweets said Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes.
Your nomination turned out to be a testing ground, for conspiracy theories, and culture war theories.
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session and vote on the confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 682, the nomination of Ruth Montenegro, under the previous order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order…
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.
I announce that the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) is necessarily absent.-
this Constitution of ours, which has taken up so much time in the hearing, the conversation about it.
Unfortunately, too many of the Court's decisions do not rest on solid constitutional foundations and reliable legal reasoning.
This Committee has also received a striking outpouring of support for your nomination from a very broad range of sources.
I think you have to have integrity. I think you have to have a judicial temperament. But a philosophy? Where has that come from?
I have every expectation that at the end of this week's hearings, it will be clear to all that you are impeccably qualified in the law.
I am not going to be party to turning over this information and endangering the life of an innocent person for a political quest to find more information.
The Supreme Court is not a political institution. Rather, the Court stands above politics and above partisanship.
What a resume. All these experiences and perspectives have provided her a mastery of our justice system.
Judge Jackson has received the unqualified endorsement not only of your organization, NOBLE, but also of the Fraternal Order of Police.
As Dr. King said that day, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
This family has been torn apart by your criminal actions. You saw it on the faces of those women. You heard it in their voices.
Judge Jackson is no judicial activist. She is not a puppet of the so-called radical left.
there is that awful reference to 'three-fifths of all other persons,' which though the document never mentions the word 'slavery' or 'slaves,' what was being spelled out here by the Founding Fathers was how are we going to count these…





