Patrick Leahy

I urge the Secretary to act swiftly to issue regulations on severe gender-based persecution as a basis for asylum claims.

I want to commend Senator Sessions, who has been a strong supporter of the EB-5 process.

We cannot begin comprehensive reform of our immigration laws until we have won control of our borders.

I do not think anybody, no matter where you are in the political spectrum, feels the system we have today is working perfectly by any means.

God bless the lawyers. But we do want a solution one way or the other as soon as we can.

9/11 could have been totally avoided.

We want America to live up to our ideals in welcoming and protecting asylum seekers and refugees.

We also have to have immigration laws that are fair, humane, and reflect our American heritage.

I have commented formally in the Department of Labor's H2-A rulemaking process.

I have urged the Department of Labor to modify the H2-A program in its current rulemaking process, and I continue to fight for enactment of the AgJOBS legislation.

I several times publicly applauded him for his efforts on that.

My time is exhausted, but what I worry about in this whole thing is a 5-4 decision which, at least in my impression, changes precedent dramatically, changes our Rules of Civil Procedure by Court fiat.

What changed other than the membership of the Supreme Court?

By making the initial pleading standard so much tougher for plaintiffs to reach, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is making it more difficult to hold perpetrators of wrongdoing accountable.

I have been worried about the increasingly activist bent of the Supreme Court.

I conclude, in any event, that the defects of process, institutional competence, and democratic accountability underlying the Court's decisions are sufficiently serious...

In my view, it should not be those usual victims of 'procedural' reform...

I commend the Committee for recognizing the serious potential for damage posed by these decisions.

These new judge-made rules will result in prematurely closing the courthouse doors on ordinary Americans seeking the meaningful day in court that our justice system has provided.

It is not often in the law, that so few, have so quickly, changed so much.

I am concerned that the Court's decisions in Twombly and Iqbal may contribute to the phenomenon of vanishing trials...

We all know that a right without a remedy is no right at all.

A slim majority undercut the landmark precedent of Brown v. Board of Education and its guarantee of equal justice.

I want to assert the proposition here that a prosecutor should not make their decision or allow their decision in any way to be influenced by legislative opinion.

This country is going to last a long time, long after Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is safely either in prison for life or executed.