Political Quotes

“I spent some one-on-one time yesterday with Amy Coney Barrett. I had the opportunity to be able to ask her questions about agency deference, about religious liberty, and about the responsibility of the three branches of government and the separation of those. We spent time talking about antitrust laws, Tribal laws, and all sorts of things to walk through some things that were not covered in the hearing time. I walked away even more impressed with her as a leader, her knowledge, her judicial temperament, her sense of responsibility, the awe that she is taking on this responsibility that the Nation would ask her to do. It stands in stark contrast to some of the conversations I have had with some of my colleagues on the other side and from the hearings over the last week where, most of the time, my colleagues spent their time saying that people should be afraid of this mother of seven, that she is a terrifying individual who will take away your healthcare, who will take away your right to be able to destroy your unborn child if you choose to, that she is racist and that she is anti-woman, which I thought were the ultimate challenges to her as a woman herself, obviously, and when she was challenged over and over again about being a racist and a segregationist. She is the mother of a multiracial family. It is a bizarre side-by-side to actually meet the actual person and to go through the law versus hearing the descriptions.…”