Political Quotes

“it is a privilege to serve with the Senator from Vermont on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He and I have been called, maybe, the odd couple on a number of issues like Freedom of Information Act reform and other matters. So we find ourselves aligned on that important issue, the importance of the public's right to know. But it won't surprise anybody to know--it certainly doesn't surprise him to know--he and I have a different point of view on this nominee and on a few other topics as well. One of the ones I wanted to talk about briefly at the very beginning was the so-called Ginsburg rule. Senator Leahy was there and Joe Biden was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee back in 1993 when Justice Ginsburg--then a lawyer-- was nominated for the Supreme Court. Her record as a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union placed her far outside of the mainstream of American law. She argued for legalized prostitution, against separate prisons for men and women, and had speculated that there could be a constitutional right to polygamy--certainly outside of the mainstream of American legal opinion. But when she was pressed time and again before Republicans to talk about those views, she said she would not answer those questions.…”