Cory Booker

Rehnquist fervently believed that the Supreme Court had taken a wrong turn in the sixties and seventies when the Court made a lot of really landmark decisions.

I think there are a lot of folks who have real concerns if you get on the Court, folks who are married right now really have a fear that they will not be able to continue those marital bonds.

Morally, you think it is right to hire people, it does not matter their background.

If I could just ask you person to person, human being to human being, the dignity of a human being, it would be wrong to fire somebody because of the color of their skin.

It would be morally wrong. It would be morally wrong. Right?

You would not fire somebody because of their gender, obviously. Right?

You would not fire somebody because of the color of their skin. Obviously, no. Right?

Why not just announce right now that you will recuse yourself from any matters coming before the Supreme Court involving the Mueller investigation?

It is really important that the Supreme Court be above suspicion.

This is going to be a time, if we have a constitutional crisis, where the faith in this country will be tested, shaken again.

All of us, I really believe this, every single Senator up here is going to be tested.

If you had told me what has been going on the last 3, 4 months was going to happen 4 years ago, I would think you are describing a fiction novel and not something that actually could be happening in our country right now.

The suspicion is clearly there.

You are failing to at least hold President Trump in your eyes to the same level of the Presidential character.

What kind of loyalty is being required of you for this job?

You have seen this President demanding loyalty, expecting loyalty.

Because there is an issue of this President who is asking for loyalty tests from the people he is putting forward for offices.

You cannot even say if you have great respect for Donald Trump?

Character matters and that the President of the United States should not--should be a role model for America.

You told Senator Klobuchar that you 'did not take a position on the constitutionality, period.' You stand by that?

You told Ranking Member Feinstein and Senator Coons that you had never taken a position on the constitutionality of criminally investigating or indicting a sitting President.

If Bill Burck was the one to give those documents, I cannot help but wonder what else, again, he might be holding back, what else they might be trying to hide.

Let us go through that process because I think the public should understand that at a moment that somebody is up for a lifetime appointment.

I take full responsibility for violating that, sir, and I violate it because I sincerely believe that the public deserves to know this nominee's record.

There is no Senate rule that accounts for this process, period.