Al Franken

The Justices who sit on the Supreme Court wield enormous power over our daily lives.

What this moment in our history, and in our Nation's history, calls for is a nominee whose experience demonstrates an ability to set aside rigid views in favor of identifying common ground and crafting strong consensus opinions, someone…

It is simply unfair.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is no adequate substitute for the strong protections that had long been provided by the Section 5 preclearance provision

the right to vote is the most sacred civil right in our democracy

We have seen the Roberts Court go out of its way to answer questions not before it, to overturn precedents, to strike down laws enacted by Congress.

These restrictions accomplished exactly what they were designed to do when they kept African-Americans from voting.

We must determine whether your understanding of our founding document is one that will make real its promise of justice and equality to all Americans.

There is a sort of core group of cases in which the Roberts Court continually has ruled in favor of corporations and against workers and consumers.

The hostility to the worker here.

I strongly believe that what happened to Merrick Garland was unfair and disgraceful.

the Supreme Court's Shelby County decision gutted the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act.

I have done that with my Fairness in Arbitration Act, which I keep introducing.

I do not think that most Americans realize that when they sign up for a credit card or cable service or sign an employment agreement or fill out their parent's nursing home resident agreement that they are also signing away their…

The argument that we should judge and are judging candidates solely based on their qualifications is betrayed by the fact that these are the same people who blocked Merrick Garland.

It is not fair. The bank.

If that is the case, what was Merrick Garland about? That is what it was about.

Forced arbitration clauses, which are buried in the fine print of contracts that we sign every day, restrict Americans' access to justice by stripping consumers and workers of their legal rights and insulating corporations from…

We are trying to really figure out whether we are going to see a continuation of this pro-corporate bias and of this bias toward big money and a perversion of our political system like through Citizens United.

But if the past is prologue, then I fear that confirming you would guarantee more of the same from the Roberts' Court, decisions that continue to favor powerful corporate interests over the rights of average Americans.

In a series of decisions, including Rent-A-Center, Concepcion, and Italian Colors, the Roberts Court effectively reshaped the Federal Arbitration Act into a permission slip for corporations to opt out of the civil justice system.

the Administration planned to gut our federal commitment to energy R&D

federal investments in R&D have paid off handsomely in the past and are vital to our continued success as a nation

My sister attended a school with poor conditions that Senator Franken helped generously.

I would like to ask you to work with me to fund the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program.