Chuck Schumer: “Yes. The bottom line is the Court, despite the fact that Congress, on a bipartisan basis--by the way, supported by…”

“Yes. The bottom line is the Court, despite the fact that Congress, on a bipartisan basis--by the way, supported by George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, who signed it into law-- somehow comes up with an interpretation that parts of the law are beyond the Constitution and millions of disabled people are deprived of rights. That did not just happen for disabled people. In that case, which was the Garrett case, I believe my colleague is referring to, they said the States did not have to abide by this. Even though it was clear that the intent of Congress was that everyone had to abide by it, they said the States could discriminate against disabled people. I know my colleague from Illinois was involved in a law that says someone cannot bring a gun into school. Again, somehow the Supreme Court comes to the determination that a person can, or that the law that we passed, which seemed to be a general mainstream consensus law-- because some of these folks tend to be ideologues, they came up with some God-forsaken reason that that could not happen. Another one on which I worked long and hard, along with our colleague from Delaware, Senator Biden, and our colleague from California, Senator Boxer--I know the Senator from Illinois was very supportive-- was something called the Violence Against Women Act, which for the first time said that the Federal Government could be involved in helping women who were abused by their spouses.”