Political Quotes

“the Senate has a duty and a responsibility to methodically review a Supreme Court nominee's record. That is why, in past years, the Senate has sent bipartisan letters-- bipartisan--to the National Archives and Presidential libraries requesting the necessary information on a nominee. Democrats and Republicans agreed that however we would ultimately vote, transparency and openness were principles we all shared. It appears that bipartisan tradition has been tossed aside. It was fine for our Republican friends when they were in the minority and President Obama nominated candidates to the Supreme Court. But the double standard is glaring, enormous, and detrimental to America. Now the Republican majority has cast aside Democratic wishes for openness and transparency and has made a partisan request for only a small subset of Judge Kavanaugh's records. It is such a break from precedent that we have to wonder: What are the Republicans hiding about Judge Kavanaugh's record? What are they so afraid of that they tie themselves in knots--into a pretzel--to contradict everything they stood for when they were in the minority? Today, every Democrat on the Judiciary Committee has joined Ranking Member Feinstein in making a formal request of the National Archives to provide the exact same universe of documents provided during the confirmation of Justice Kagan. When I say the same request, I mean the exact same request.…”