On the recordMarch 12, 2014
Mr. Chairman, as I indicated, this is a political fight. I thought we had settled that fight with Baker v. Carr, a case that hails from 1962. Baker stands for the proposition that courts are not equipped to adjudicate political questions, and that it is impossible to decide such questions. Now our friends want to give Congress the right to expedite their lawsuit over the average citizen on a political question, first in a three-judge court, and then right to the Supreme Court of the United States, while the American people suffer because they want that particular position. It is a political question because it is the Republicans who want to be able to move beyond the authority given in the Constitution. I yield 15 seconds to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers).
