We value freedom and respect your democracy.

I urge my colleagues to remember his words about how the Court must consider the effect of its actions on people's lives.

I will listen thoroughly. I will keep an open mind, as I do with every nominee before this Committee.

If it's pay to play and checks for millions anonymously delivered will get you into the room to decide who is going to be on the Supreme Court, we got a problem.

Judge Jackson's impressive record on and off the bench demonstrates that she is a fair-minded arbiter of justice.

I'm not going to be party to it. I will not be party to exposing this information to the possibility of disclosure and the harm that can come from it.

Will a Justice protect the rights of kids to get a quality education?

The President believes that she should have a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court, and it's the job of this body to evaluate that recommendation on its merits.

I believe that the admonition of the Leader on the Republican side, Senator McConnell, that our hearing be fair and respectful of the nominee was largely upheld by the Members of the Committee.

court packing can be done by adding new seats to the Court. I haven't proposed that.

It's also my hope folks will get a chance to meet the family that shaped you.

America is ready for this Supreme Court glass ceiling to finally shatter, and you, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, are the person to do it.

there is exactly one living Senator who has effectively changed the size of the Supreme Court.

Cory Booker spoke yesterday, it cleared the air finally and refocused us on what we were doing and why we were here.

One of the primary roles of the United States Supreme Court is to uphold the rule of law.

As we begin this week's hearings, I remain hopeful that we can come together as a Committee and engage in respectful, good faith, bipartisan consideration of your nomination.

Representation matters with the legitimacy and credibility of our judicial system.

I think that is a step in the right direction, and it was passed it out of this Committee on a bipartisan basis.

We have created a situation because of our inattention and unwillingness to tackle an extremely controversial area in Congress and left it to the judges, and I think we have to accept some responsibility for that.

I think that you have the right temperament, just based on how I have seen you react to the questions.

Her background as a Federal public defender would bring an informed perspective of our criminal justice system to the Supreme Court.

The American people, our constituents, and their faith--and their faith in the courts, that's central to our democracy.

A good judge must understand that his or her job is not to legislate from the bench and read in their preferred policy outcomes into statutes.

I noticed a little surprise in your reaction and I was surprised by the allegation.

This process is broken, but it's a product of a broader brokenness in the erosion of our constitutional structure.