Political Quotes

“Madam President, some months ago, in July of this year, I came to this floor shortly after the conclusion of the Supreme Court's most recent term to lament the ongoing judicial activism--the judicial imperialism--that we have seen from this Court over this past term and from the Supreme Court for years on end. I quote the late Justice Scalia who said: ``The imperial judiciary lives.'' I said on the floor of this Senate--and it was a shame to say but was undeniable--that the imperial judiciary continued to live in this country--a judiciary intent and a Supreme Court intent on legislating from the Bench, on making up laws that went along with no regard for what the people actually wrote in their statutes or in their laws. I particularly lamented the position of religious conservatives, of people of faith, who had seen in this past term from the U.S. Supreme Court decision after decision that tossed aside the concerns of religious conservatives and faithful Americans and who had watched the Supreme Court legislate and depart from the text of written laws with barely any concern for the effects on religious liberties. In fact, it tossed aside concerns about religious liberty, religious freedom, and in one or two lines of opinions, the effect on religious institutions. This is what we have been seeing from the U.S. Supreme Court. Religious conservatives have come to a place of asking: What is it that we are fighting for?…”