Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is no secret that powerful interests are working to undermine our government. Giant companies and rightwing billionaires have been pouring unlimited sums of money into making sure our government works for those at the top and leaves everyone else behind, and a key part of their strategy is to capture our courts. During the Obama administration, those powerful interests and their Republican allies in Congress executed an unprecedented campaign to stop fairminded, impartial nominees from filling judicial vacancies. Nominees weren't blocked because they were unqualified. They weren't blocked because they were inexperienced. They weren't blocked because they were out of the mainstream. They were blocked for one reason and one reason alone: because they didn't demonstrate a sufficient willingness to bend the law in favor of the rich and the powerful. With Donald Trump as President, these same interests sense a once-in- a-lifetime opportunity to reshape our courts for years to come, and they are working to stack our courts with narrow-minded elitists and rightwing radicals. Stuart Kyle Duncan--President Trump's nominee to sit on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals--is one of those nominees. Mr. Duncan has spent his career working to restrict--not to expand, but to restrict--civil rights in the United States. Over and over again, he has sought to tilt the scales of justice against women, against LGBTQ Americans, against people of color, and others. Mr.…”