Ted Cruz

Now your justification is that you are following the statute, and as you know, 18 U.S.C. 3553 lays out the factors that as a district judge you had to consider in sentencing.

You have taken over a minute of my time, Mr. Chairman.

Well, I am asking you how you would assess standing if I came in and said, 'I have decided I identify as an Asian man.'

This letter that is signed by 10 Senators on the Committee addressed to you, makes the point that the White House gave you probation information for Democrats that was not provided to the Minority on this Committee.

I know you want to interrupt. I know you do not like this line of questioning.

But let me ask, under the modern leftist sensibilities, if I decide right now that I am a woman, then apparently I am a woman.

This Committee, given that she raised it as the basis for her sentence, it is highly relevant to the Committee's analysis to see what the presentence report says.

So, Judge Jackson, all of us will agree that no one should be discriminated against because of race.

So Critical Race Theory, as you know, has its origins in the critical legal studies movement, which also came from Harvard Law School, from a number of critical legal studies professors--'crits' as they were known when we were in law…

The incredible promise and the incredible opportunity this Nation offers all of us.

So are you aware that since the 1619 Project came out, that it has been roundly refuted by very respected historians, including Gordon Wood of Brown University, including James McPherson of Princeton University.

Republicans and Democrats alike should give their studied advice and then their consent to the President's nomination.

Expanding the Supreme Court to achieve favored legal and political outcomes is a dangerous idea.

2 million illegal aliens streamed across our borders just last year.

The Supreme Court struck down that unlawful power grab.

The Attorney General of the United States ordered that Federal prosecutors be mobilized against parents.

The President was ever willing to nominate someone who planned to shred the Second Amendment.

The progressive left is not just threatening the rights of Americans but our very system of constitutional government.

Thanks to the courage of some of my Democratic colleagues, that nominee was withdrawn.

Every banana republic has a bill of rights, but it is nothing more than a parchment barrier.

The Biden administration is waging a war on the rule of law, the separation of powers, and the Constitution.

And then most of the Members of this Committee remember the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, one of the lowest moments in the history of this Committee.

It is only one side of the aisle, the Democratic aisle that went so into the gutter with Judge Robert Bork that they invented a new verb, 'to bork' someone.

We've gotten so used to this kind of bullying that 2 years ago, the current Senate Majority Leader stood on the steps of the United States Capitol and screamed threats against two sitting Justices of the Supreme Court that they would 'reap…

As Justice Thomas observed in that hearing, what happened there was, to use his words, 'a high-tech lynching.'