Tina Smith: “Thank you, Chair Schatz and Vice Chair Murkowski, for holding this hearing today.”

Unlike every other federal judge in this country, Supreme Court Justices aren’t bound by a code of ethics.

I told him that I thought it was brutal and cruel. He should think about the implications of what he’s saying and doing.

So they’re trying to retaliate against me or Sen. [Amy] Klobuchar and the result is all Minnesotans’ utility bills go up? What’s the point of that? That’s so stupid.

I don’t know whether Sen. Lee thought fully through what it was, you’d have to ask him, but I needed him to hear from me directly what impact I think his cruel statement had on me, his colleague.