Political Quotes

“Madam President, reserving the right to object, I just want to briefly summarize the arguments that my able colleagues on this side of the aisle have made. An independent judiciary is the crown jewels of our democracy. What do I mean by that? We have the political branches of government. We have got the White House, popularly elected President through the electoral college. We have got individual Senators elected by various States. And then we have got the House of Representatives. Those are all political bodies. The judiciary, created by the Constitution--the Supreme Court specifically--was designed to be a check on the abuses of power by the political branches of government and to hold up the Constitution as a supreme law of the land. That was Marbury versus Madison by Chief Justice Marshall in 1804, I believe. So the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It is not the political branches. And I think in recent years, we have seen every institution in Washington, DC, corrupted in one way or the other by the politicalization of previously revered institutions. And I am talking specifically about the FBI and the use of an opposition research by a Presidential candidate against a successful Presidential candidate, President Trump, and then the FBI director saying his mission in life was to see a special counsel appointed, which it was for 2 years-- Robert Mueller, who found no basis upon which to bring any charges.…”