Political Quotes

“Mr. President, judges make decisions around the country. They are making them right now on workers' rights, voters' rights, women's rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights--decisions that would limit those rights for a generation. We used to be able to rely on judges to expand human rights and civil rights and all rights of humankind. Today, we cringe so often because of judges who get selected by this President who put their thumbs on the scale to support corporations over workers and health insurance companies over patients and Wall Street over consumers. These same judges make decisions on healthcare and sentencing and corporate power. That is why we can't afford to have Steven Menashi on the Federal bench. On all of these issues, his record makes it clear that he is not on the side of the people we were sent here to serve. There is a simple rule for understanding where Steve Menashi stands on any issue: If a policy helps ordinary, hard-working Americans, Menashi opposes it. He argued that gun safety regulation is ``pointless and self-defeating.'' We are talking about commonsense background checks that 85 percent of the American public supports, all blocked by the gun manufacturers. Tell that to the people of Dayton whose lives were torn apart and ended in some cases by gun violence. Tell them background checks are pointless.…”