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Jay Inslee: yes, we are one Nation under God, and we are one Nation under the Constitution, until today. I voted some time ago to…

On the recordSeptember 23, 2004
yes, we are one Nation under God, and we are one Nation under the Constitution, until today. I voted some time ago to keep the words ``under God'' in the Pledge, and I will vote today to keep the Supreme Court in its constitutional business of enforcing the Bill of Rights. The Republican Party today intends to treat the Bill of Rights the way the Soviet Union operated during their long tyranny. Because in the Soviet Union, one could go next to Lenin's grave and see their beautiful bill of rights nicely illuminated, looked fine. But the Soviet Union lacked one thing: they stripped their courts of the ability to enforce their own bill of rights. And today the Republican Party intends to do the same thing in America. In America we should not abandon what we learned as kids in school, that checks and balances are necessary to our fundamental liberties. And sometimes the Supreme Court gets it wrong, but heaven help the day that one trusts liberty to Congress, where the day that Congress is in session, their life and liberty is in danger. We have got to depend on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Jay Inslee
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing the role of the Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights in a speech on the House floor.

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