Political Quotes

“today Republicans filibuster a judicial nominee whose colleagues call her a ``brilliant legal mind'' with an ``abiding respect for the law.'' This nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Caitlin Joan Halligan, has outstanding credentials and strong support from across the political spectrum. She enjoys the support of a bipartisan group of appellate lawyers, former judges, law enforcement officials, and more than 20 former Supreme Court clerks. And she has been endorsed by the National District Attorneys Association, the New York Association of Police Chiefs and the New York State Sheriffs Association. She graduated with honors from Princeton and Georgetown University Law, where she was managing editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She served as a law clerk to Judge Patricia Wald on the DC Circuit, the court to which she was nominated, and to Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. She has served New York and this Nation well as a public servant for more than a decade. Yet Republicans filibustered her nomination. I ask my colleagues, if this truly exceptional candidate isn't qualified to be a judge in the United States of America, who is? In 2005, a bipartisan group of Senators came to an agreement to protect the Senate as an institution and the right of the minority to influence debate.…”