Al Franken actually said...

"political speech is the highest form of speech under the First Amendment entitled to the greatest protection, and that the courts should be wary of Congress regulating in this area in such a way as to..."

"Justice Thurgood Marshall is one of the greatest lawyers and jurists in American history."

"Justice Marshall wasn't some activist radical, rather, his views were very much in the mainstream."

"the court should show 'special solicitude for the despised and disadvantaged, the people who went unprotected by every other organ of government and who had no other champion.'"