Political Quotes

“from start to finish, President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court will go down as one of the saddest, most sordid in the long history of the Federal judiciary. The well was poisoned from the outset when President Trump selected Judge Kavanaugh from a list of names preapproved by hard-right special interest groups for whom the national interest is a trifling concern compared to repealing Roe v. Wade, cutting people's healthcare, and achieving a partisan majority on the Supreme Court. The rot worsened when the Republican majority on the Judiciary Committee shielded the bulk of Judge Kavanaugh's records from the public, discarding decades of bipartisan precedent and thwarting norms of transparency and fairness. Finally, the dam broke under the weight of credible allegations that Judge Kavanaugh committed a sexual assault in high school. In 2018, the Republican majority conducted a hearing that made the Anita Hill hearings in 1991 look fair by comparison. At this hearing, there were no corroborating witnesses on either side and no independent investigation of the facts to inform the questioning. They even hired an outside counsel to put a witness, Dr. Ford, on trial. Only at the eleventh-hour urging of breakaway Members of their caucus, Republicans submitted, reluctantly, to a 1-week investigation of the allegations-- an investigation which was then severely circumscribed by the White House.…”