Political Quotes

“today the Senate has an opportunity to act in a bipartisan manner to end a filibuster against an outstanding nominee to the D.C. Circuit. Caitlin Halligan is an exceptional attorney with the kind of impeccable credentials in both public service and private practice that make her unquestionably qualified to serve on the D.C. Circuit. No one can seriously question her legal ability, her judgment, her character, her integrity, her ethics or her temperament. Those who seek to misrepresent her as a partisan or ideological crusader are wrong and unfair. Some have mischaracterized her record and distorted her views on executive authority and terrorism. Here is what she said about the 2004 New York City Bar report that some are using to inflame the debate: I was, frankly, taken aback by [this Report], for a couple of reasons. First of all, the Supreme Court has clearly said that indefinite detention is authorized by the AUMF statute. And so the notion that the President lacks that authority, I think, is clearly incorrect. I was also a little bit taken aback by the tone of the report. I think that the issues of indefinite detention and any issues in the national security realm are very serious ones, and I think that approaching those issues as respectfully as possible is the most productive way to proceed. But the bottom line is that the report does not represent my work. It does not reflect my views.…”