On the recordFebruary 12, 2021
I send a question to the desk for the House managers. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Maryland, Senator Van Hollen, has a question for the managers. The clerk will read the question. The legislative clerk read as follows: Would you please respond to the answer that was just given by the former President's counsel? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The House manager will be recognized. Mr. Manager RASKIN. Mr. President, thank you. I am not sure which question the Senator was referring to, but let me quickly just dispense with the counsel's invocation again of Bond v. Floyd. This is a case I know well, and I thank him raising it. Julian Bond was a friend of mine. He was a colleague of mine at American University. He was a great civil rights hero. In his case, he got elected to the Georgia State Legislature and was a member of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the great committee headed up by the great Bob Moses for a long time. He got elected to the Georgia Legislature, and they didn't want to allow him to be sworn in. They wouldn't allow him to take his oath of office because SNCC had taken a position against the Vietnam war. So the Supreme Court said that was a violation of his First Amendment rights not to allow him to be sworn in. That is the complete opposite of Donald Trump.…
