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Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has been a prominent figure in national politics, known for his work on issues such as national security, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. He has played a key role in various legislative efforts and has been an outspoken advocate for military support to Ukraine in recent years.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think it's time to look at this system anew, folks.

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Mar 20, 2022

The American people deserve a system where everybody is represented whether you like them or not.

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Mar 20, 2022

Did you know that Joe Biden actively filibustered Janice Rogers Brown?

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Mar 20, 2022

I don't think it's necessary to call the Government a war criminal in pursuing charges against a terrorist.

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Mar 20, 2022

Okay. So it's an executive branch function to determine whether or not this person qualifies as an enemy combatant?

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Mar 20, 2022

It's 31 percent. How does that strike you? Is that high, low, about right?

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Mar 20, 2022

Everyone deserves a lawyer. You're doing the country a great service when you defend the most unpopular people.

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Mar 20, 2022

President Biden has every right to pick who he'd like to pick.

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Mar 20, 2022

The attacks from the left against Judge Childs was really pretty vicious, to be honest with you.

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Mar 20, 2022

I have said in the past that I think it's good for the Court to look like America, so count me in on the idea of making the Court more diverse.

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Mar 20, 2022

I remember Janice Rogers Brown, an African-American woman. It was filibustered by the same people praising you.

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Mar 20, 2022

I hope you can give us an answer because it shouldn't be hard. Either you do or you don't.

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Mar 20, 2022

There have been people in my caucus that would've voted for her, even though we knew she would be a reliable liberal vote.

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Mar 20, 2022

Elections have consequences. He had many qualified African-American women to choose from. He chose you.

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Mar 20, 2022

I want the Court to play a particular role in America. One is make it more look like the country but also make it operate in the confines of the Constitution.

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Mar 20, 2022

This is a new game for the Supreme Court, and this game is particularly disturbing to me.

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Mar 20, 2022

Everybody deserves a lawyer. You're doing the country a great service when you defend the most unpopular people.

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Mar 20, 2022

There is a periodic review process made up of an interagency, where they go through the files of these folks and they determine whether or not they still present a threat to the United States or the world at large.

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Mar 20, 2022

If you're an African-American conservative woman, you're fair game to have your life turned upside down.

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Mar 20, 2022

I can assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight, and she probably would be filibustered.

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Mar 18, 2022

I think the administration is afraid of the Russians losing because they haven’t contemplated that.

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Mar 17, 2022

Like 90 percent of the country is with Ukrainians and is opposed to Putin. So, when you see a member of Congress, say things like this, the one thing I want you to know, they`re outliers in the largest sense possible on our side.

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Mar 17, 2022

Stop sending mixed messages.

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Mar 4, 2022

Somebody in Russia has to step up to the plate. Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there more a successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends, my friend, is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.

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Mar 3, 2022

Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.

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