"You really can't find an example of any president — with the potential exception of Richard Nixon — who directed the Department of Justice to engage in criminal investigations and prosecutions targeti..."
"New York lost a seat, and I found an article about that, August 12, 2021, New York Times, 'New York Loses House Seat After Coming Up 89 People Short on Census.'"
"It seems like that example completely contradicts the thesis that there was some effort afoot to artificially inflate delegations in blue states."
"I would turn the Judiciary Committee into the headquarters of congressional opposition to authoritarianism."
"I know you are proud of the 4 million vote majority which the President-elect seems to have now, just as we were proud of the 7 million vote majority that Joe Biden had 4 years ago."
"No one should play partisan politics with disaster aid, but that is exactly what your Agency has been doing."
"Matt Gaetz is a MAGA zealot and a Trump sycophant and a confidant."
"This is the absolute triumph and takeover of the Republican Party by MAGA, and it will be the takeover of the U.S. government by MAGA, if the Senate lets all of these people go through."
"I think it's just impossible to contemplate that the U.S. Senate, you know, even as much as they're under the thumb of Donald Trump, would actually vote to confirm him without the ethics committee rep..."
"He gets appointed. He would be installed essentially on a recess appointment basis. Yet, he wouldn't be confirmed by the Senate."
"I definitely don't assume that."
"Any public official who sought to obscure transparency or mislead the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic should answer to the American public regardless of political party."