Political Quotes

“She has shown marked hostility toward Alabamians, Floridians, and Georgians. She has accused them of suppressing minorities and poor people from voting. She has accused their police officers of targeting minorities, and all throughout her accusations is the threat of racism. It animates her every action, her every assault, her every view. She accuses Georgia of being ``committed to keeping us in the past and that is scary.'' As the Attorneys General appropriately ask, ``How could Ms. Abudu impartially adjudicate the many Eleventh Circuit cases involving Georgia, its statutes, its citizens, and especially its law enforcement officers, when she already believes the State is a `bad actor' with a `culture of law enforcement' that `targets Black and Brown people'?'' There again, they are quoting her words. Ms. Abudu's record of hostility toward the people and the laws of the Eleventh Circuit is nothing short of alarming. When you combine that hostility with her lack of respect for the judicial system and her ongoing commitment to a group of self-described ``radical movement legal activists,'' I simply don't know how any Member of this body can still believe she will serve the people of the Eleventh Circuit or, even less, our judicial system well. But the only way one can justify voting for this nominee is if one agrees with her hostile views and is comfortable with her activist approach. I am not, and I oppose her nomination in the strongest possible terms.”