On the recordJuly 31, 2018
Mr. President, the confirmation process for Judge Kavanaugh continues and, predictably, so does the Democrat hysteria. It is the same old playbook: Any Supreme Court nominee from a Republican President is guaranteed to destroy the Constitution, abolish our rights, and endanger the lives of the American people. I am not exaggerating for effect. Those are actual accusations from Democrats and liberal interest groups. In the lead-up to Justice Gorsuch's confirmation, the head of one liberal organization stated that there was ``substantial evidence'' that if Gorsuch's ``egregious views were to become law, Americans' lives . . . would be put at risk in untold ways.'' A year into Justice Gorsuch's tenure on the Supreme Court, Americans seem to be doing OK. But that didn't stop the former Democratic Governor of Virginia from tweeting that ``the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come.'' Then, of course, there is that other favorite Democrat accusation-- that the Constitution will be put in jeopardy if we confirm a Republican President's Supreme Court nominee. In the lead-up to Judge Kavanaugh's nomination, the junior Senator from California said: ``We're looking at a destruction of the Constitution of the United States.'' I have to say that I find this accusation particularly hilarious because if there is one thing that we can count on Judge Kavanaugh to do, it is to defend the Constitution.…
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