Political Quotes

“Dear Mr. President, we write to express the strong, majority support in the United States Senate for Miguel Estrada, your nominee to the United States Court of Appeals to the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Estrada's professional accomplishments and personal achievement are truly impressive. He graduated magna cum laude from both Columbia College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He clerked on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. Miguel Estrada served with distinction as an assistant U.S. attorney in the prestigious Southern District of New York, rising to Deputy Chief of the Appellate section, and in the Solicitor General's Office during both Republican and Democrat Administrations, where he argued fifteen cases before the Supreme Court. It is no wonder Mr. Estrada received a rare, unanimous rating of "well qualified" from the American Bar Association, what many of our colleagues called the coveted "Gold Standard." Mr. Estrada's professional successes are even more remarkable in light of his compelling personal story.”