Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today, the Supreme Court, despite lacking an important ninth Justice--my Republican colleagues refuse to do their jobs. That is the first time that anybody can remember, maybe in history--certainly in recent history--where a Supreme Court nominee has been sent to the Senate by a President, and the Senate has refused to do either hearings or certainly refuse to bring that Justice up for a vote. If this continues, if Senator McConnell and his Republican colleagues continue their course, this will be the first time in 150 years where a Supreme Court vacancy has stayed open for an entire year. Why 150 years? Because we were in the middle of the Civil War, and there were all kinds of things going on as southerners, who had seceded, left the Supreme Court with lots of vacancies, and the Senate didn't do its job then. But that was the Civil War; this is a political war waged by one side in a refusal to do its job. Today the Supreme Court, despite not having nine members, reaffirmed that women, not politicians, should be the ones making their own health care decisions. In a 5-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt that the Texas law at issue places an undue burden on a woman's ability to access safe and legal health care. The law's arbitrary, medically unnecessary--medically unnecessary-- restrictions caused dozen of clinics to close across the State of Texas.…”