Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object, I would open with the observation that--well, let me start by saying that in one of the great plays in our language, the opening began with the observation that ``something is rotten in the state of Denmark.'' There is increasing evidence that something is rotten across that lawn and across First Street at the U.S. Supreme Court. What is the evidence of that? Well, the first thing I would suggest is the amount of anonymous dark money influencers swirling around the Court. I have spent a good deal of my professional life around appellate courts. I have never seen--nor does the history of the Supreme Court evidence--anything like what is taking place right now with dark money influencers swirling like eels around that Court. How do they do it? Well, they are involved in the selection process through a group called the Federalist Society, which takes large, anonymous, dark-money contributions and controls the selection of judges. How do we know it controls the selection of judges? Donald Trump has said so. The Wall Street Journal has said this was a subcontracting operation--a subcontracting operation--and it worked. It is not a good thing when the selection of our Supreme Court is subcontracted out to a private group that then takes multimillion-dollar anonymous donations. It shouldn't be hard for Members to understand that is a dangerous set of facts.…”