Jerry Nadler actually said...

"We've been here before. In 2004, my Republican colleagues held a hearing on this issue to rail against the Supreme Court's decisions in Lawrence v. Texas and Atkins v. Virginia."

"Efforts to attack that independence, as exhibited in H.R. 973, the bill introduced by our colleague from Florida, Ms. Adams, that would ban courts from 'deciding any issue on the authority of foreign ..."

"Of course, in addition to instances where a judge may look to foreign law as non-binding but informative, courts sometimes must consider and be bound by foreign law in reaching a decision."

"But there is nothing new and nothing alarming about justices educating themselves about the laws and practices of other nations."