When the Senator from South Carolina says the Supreme Court of the United States can take certiorari, it is at variance with the plain language of the statute. The statute says: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
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Senator Specter cited just one. It was his vote against confirming Jeff Sessions as a Federal judge.
Congressional legislation 'doesn't amount to anything if the president can say, 'My constitutional authority supersedes the statute.'
I cannot applaud Rutland enough, because we had a similar hearing a few years ago when Senator Arlen Specter and I were here, and that shaped a number of federal programs for the better because of what we heard from you.
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