Political Quotes

“Mr. President, Democrats made their latest move yesterday in their yearslong campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Their failed attempt to gain unanimous consent on a so-called Supreme Court ethics bill was yet another attempt to bully the Court into ruling the way Democrats want. With decisions in multiple controversial cases coming from the Supreme Court over the next few weeks, including today, I expect this was just the prelude to yet another dramatic Democrat temper tantrum if things don't go Democrats' way. I say ``if things don't go Democrats' way'' because it is a funny thing--when the Supreme Court decides things Democrats' way, we hear a lot less about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Take the Court's decision in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd., in which most of the Court's Republican appointees sided with all of the Court's Democrat appointees to deliver a decision that Democrats supported. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the Democrat ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, had this to say: With this decision, our nation's justices have decided to put consumers first and reject the baseless attacks led by extreme MAGA Republicans and greedy payday lenders to hamstring the work of the CFPB and put consumers in harm's way. Or take the Court's decision in Moore v.…”