Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is hard for me to believe, but it has only been 2 weeks since I was at the White House, along with many of our other colleagues, to await the President's announcement of who would fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. At that time, the President had said he had narrowed the candidates to a field of four, all of whom were well known and well qualified. I was personally pleased that he had selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a candidate whom I had been proud to introduce and support early in my career in the Senate when he was nominated and confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. That would have been back in 2006. His academic background, his longstanding experience in public service, and his now 12-year record of faithfully applying the law as an appellant judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, I believe, make him exactly the type of jurist we should want to serve on our Nation's highest Court. We know the attacks already began even before the nominee was announced. To me, that was the most telling thing of all. One leftwing group's literal fill-in-the-blank press release confirmed all of the terrible things that nominee xx was going to do when nominee xx was nominated to the Supreme Court. Last week, the leader rightfully referred to this as the ``fill-in-the-blank'' opposition.…”