Mondaire Jones: “Time after time you have chosen to put your right to kill over our right to live.”

This cements Merrick Garland's legacy as being the most ineffective attorney general of the United States in modern history because he waited so long to open these investigations.

Growing up, like many people in this room, I suspect, I watched as mostly--as straight politicians, many of them White, many of them men, used my basic human rights as a political football to further their careers.

Our enemies are only growing stronger and I'm talking about Russia and China, which is why we have to make sure that we keep our alliances strong.

Yes, so, it turns out that when you erase the history of discrimination or oppression of a people, it makes it easier to repeat that same history.