Political Quotes

“Madam President, I do want to say that we are here at a time when the Republican Party is jamming yet another nominee through bizarre procedural practices onto the Supreme Court. We have examined in the Judiciary Committee some of the ways in which the funding for that operation flows from big anonymous donors who use the Federalist Society as a conduit to buy a seat at the table where our Supreme Court Justices are selected, and then, with contributions as big as $17 million, pays for campaign ads for the nominee who has been selected and then sends an entire flotilla of front groups in an orchestrated chorus to go and argue together before the Supreme Court as if they were different. What I want to say today is that we have been looking at this captured court problem for a while, and we are releasing this ``What's at Stake'' report on what it means for climate and the environment because who is behind the scheme to capture the court are primarily the big polluters who want protection from courts that will be friendly to their interests. I will speak more about this and about why they are willing to spend what the Washington Post has calculated as $250 million in dark money to affect this court-capture operation. What is the payback for them? I am here for this episode of my ``Time to Wake Up'' series, which has an interesting overlay with what is happening in the Senate because we are considering the nomination of Judge Barrett to go on the Supreme Court.…”