Sheldon Whitehouse

Senator Kaine is a very able lawyer and one of the key features or subtopics, if you will, of this hearing has been the problem of conflicts of interests.

I will leave it to members to reach their own conclusions as to the honesty of testimony that the IMF reports were unofficial and not peer reviewed.

There's just no point being mean to these kids. They've got enough going on already.

It just seems to me that when we're dealing with a population that includes so many children, that coming at this from perspective of kindness and love and support is the thing that just we ought to be doing as fellow human beings.

The highest court in the land shouldn't have the lowest ethical standards.

If the Court won't act, Congress must.

It's time for Congress to step back in to fortify the administration of these laws.

The American people are tired of waiting.

If the Supreme Court isn't going to do anything to restore the public's trust, then it's up to us in Congress.

The Justices were serious about their duty to sit, then they would take significant measures to avoid conflicts in the first place.

The idea that the Court, setting aside being unwilling to sit in judgment of itself, is unwilling to even have facts found about itself, is so out of kilter with basic premises of due process.

There is not a court in the country, in my estimation, where if a recusal issue was properly raised, there would be no way to determine what the facts actually were.

If the Court won't act, Congress must.

The highest court in the land shouldn't have the lowest ethical standards.

The American people are tired of waiting.

If the Supreme Court isn't going to do anything to restore the public's trust, then it's up to us in Congress.

It's time for Congress to step back in to fortify the administration of these laws.

I don't think there's a courtroom in the country where a minor would be put in the position of having to represent themselves without even a guardian ad litem.

What do those efforts to weaken child labor protections portend for unaccompanied children?

The idea that the Court, setting aside being unwilling to sit in judgment of itself, is unwilling to even have facts found about itself, is so out of kilter with basic premises of due process and proper procedure and American rule of law…

There is not a court in the country, in my estimation, where if a recusal issue was properly raised, there would be no way to determine what the facts actually were as to whether a Justice or a judge should recuse or not.

I applaud the legislation before the Committee and the sustained efforts to bring us to this day.

If the Court won't act, Congress must.

The highest court in the land shouldn't have the lowest ethical standards.

It's time for Congress to step back in to fortify the administration of these laws.