Jerry Nadler: “Mr. Speaker, reference was made before to the Daschle court-stripping bill. There was no such thing. His bill did not…”

“Mr. Speaker, reference was made before to the Daschle court-stripping bill. There was no such thing. His bill did not court-strip. In fact, in the case of Biodiversity Associates v. Cables, his bill was judged constitutional. If the courts had been stripped of jurisdiction, they could not have done that. The CRS says, ``We are not aware of any precedent for law that would deny the inferior Federal court's original jurisdiction or the Supreme Court of appellate jurisdiction to review the constitutionality of a law of Congress.'' Let us stop with this nonsense that this is not unprecedented.”