Political Quotes

“again the senior Senator from Kentucky complains about the fact that the most senior member of the Senate, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Pat Leahy, is going to have a meeting today, and he has invited all the Judiciary Committee members to come--Democrats and Republicans. He has invited all Senators to come because he is going to have some witnesses testify about the importance of having a Supreme Court that is full of Justices--all nine. So that means full. Republicans won't come to that hearing, meeting. Call it whatever you want. They won't be there. No, they are blocking that, obstructing that like they have everything else. The American judiciary is in trouble, and that is why the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee is having this meeting today. To do its work, the U.S. Supreme Court needs nine Justices--not eight, not seven, but nine. But because of Senate Republicans' refusal to consider a senior judge on the DC Circuit--the second most influential court in the land--Merrick Garland, the Court is in trouble. The Court is short- staffed. The Court doesn't have enough people to do its work. People-- we are talking about one person who has so much control over what goes on in the Supreme Court. But that person is not there. In recent weeks, the Supreme Court has deadlocked on many important cases and questions before it.…”