Political Quotes

“I have come here before to call out Senate Republicans and their unwavering support for President Trump's efforts to pack our courts with partisan and ideologically driven picks, but the nominee I am speaking against today is truly uniquely unfit to serve a lifetime appointment--a lifetime appointment--on a Federal court: Steven Menashi. Mr. Menashi has a deeply disturbing history of disparaging comments against women, communities of color, immigrants, and the LGBTQI community. He unabashedly helped to roll back protections for vulnerable communities. He defiantly refused to answer basic questions from U.S. Senators, both Democrats and Republicans, about the policies he worked on while advising the President. He has time and again put extremism and ideology ahead of the rule of law, and he has proven himself incapable of serving as a fair and impartial judge. As if his record of extremism and partisanship wasn't bad enough, we now know that Steven Menashi not only helped but was the key architect in Secretary DeVos's efforts to illegally deny relief to student borrows who were cheated by predatory for-profit colleges. These policies that Mr. Menashi provided ``legal advice'' for were subsequently ruled to be in violation of Federal law. Secretary DeVos's policy on borrower defense led to her being held in contempt of court. Whether Mr.…”