Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it has been a little more than a week since President Trump announced his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the impending retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. In that short period of time, we have seen some of our friends across the aisle run through an almost impressive set of rhetorical calisthenics in an attempt to tank Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation before it even had a chance to begin. ``He will overturn this case or this law,'' they claim. ``He will not be a check on the President,'' they have tried to say. They have even suggested that he charged too much for baseball season tickets on his credit card--horror of horrors. Multiple fact-checkers have debunked each of these claims, so they have moved on. More recently, we have heard from some of our Democratic colleagues that they want to review every single piece of paper--every email, every memo, every document that has passed across Brett Kavanaugh's desk at any point in his career. Reviewing relevant and important documents is a perfectly normal part of confirming a judicial nominee, but using that as an excuse to delay, foot-drag, and obstruct is not acceptable. We know that the effort to get every memo from the Bush White House during the time he served as Staff Secretary there is really laughable and is only a fishing expedition designed to delay his confirmation until after the Supreme Court begins its work the first Monday in October.…”