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It should go without saying that judges at all levels should be held to strict and enforceable ethical standards. the Supreme Court doesn’t need to wait on Congress to clean up its act; the justices could take action today if they wanted to, and if the court fails to act, Congress must.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I want to keep the blue slip, i think it’s a good thing, but we need cooperation.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is outrageous that either occurred, but the reaction by the former president and the current president could not be in sharper contrast.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Let's be honest about it. When that information is found, it diminishes the stature of any person who is in possession of it because it's not supposed to happen, whether it was the fault of a staffer or an attorney, it makes no difference. The elected official bears ultimate responsibility.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Well, I'm concerned. There's a standard that we follow when it comes to members of Congress and classified information. The door to my office is closed. The person that presents the document to me takes it out of a locked briefcase, hands it to me and watches as I read it. When I finish reading it, he takes it back, puts it in the briefcase and leaves the scene, that's how carefully we review these documents. To think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Those documents should not have been in the personal possession of either Joe Biden or Donald Trump, but what happened and followed from it is significantly different, donald Trump defied those who knew the documents were in place and ultimately led to, involuntarily, a court order and a search of his Mar-a-Lago hotel resort to find out how many documents were there.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We know that it's important in December, that we pass the DREAM Act — December of this year when we return from Thanksgiving — because if the House moves, as we think it might politically, it becomes increasingly difficult after the first of the year to take up this issue. We need to do it now and to do it we need bipartisan support in the Senate.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was on the phone with him yesterday, had a long conversation with him, i've seen him in Chicago, invited him to come in for a fundraiser. John is ready for this job.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's true that he is going through a rehabilitation. And he's making great progress physically, he feels he's 100 percent, and when it comes to expressing himself, he's making progress every day. He's running for the Senate, and I hope the people of Pennsylvania [give him] that chance.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They're for Vladimir Putin. We can't have a world that is driven by Vladimir Putin's agenda. And, the Saudis are prepared to accept that if it means more profits for the royals.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This idea of dumping these helpless people on buses and trucking them off to New York and Washington and Chicago is cruel and it's inhumane, it does not represent who we are as Americans.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have never been called to a meeting of ActBlue. I have never been asked to approve their agenda or their website.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The FDA is supposed to protect all Americans, and particularly our children. I'm calling on FDA to finally come to its senses. Err on the side of public safety, on the side of kids, not tobacco companies. This free fall in the legal department at the FDA is unimaginable. It's not safe for America. And it's not safe for our future.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I know what Kamala is going to say, she's fed up with this, and I am too.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This has gone way beyond any Second Amendment right that someone can purchase a weapon that creates that much devastation, voters need to elect people who want real gun safety.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If this turns out to be the opinion of Supreme Court and it's issued, it could have a major impact on the outcome of this election, when you go to an issue as fundamental as privacy and an individual's right to privacy, control of their bodies and their ability to make their own decision and Supreme Court just basically eliminates it, it is certainly a mobilizing factor in the next election.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I would not want it weighing on my conscience that we are turning over these pre-sentence reports to this committee for the first time in history and that information out of this … would somehow compromise or endanger any victim as a result.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You've made a mess of their stereotype, the endorsement of the Fraternal Order Police, the International Association of Chiefs of Police just doesn't fit with their stereotype of a Harvard grad Black woman who is aspiring to the highest court in the land.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The committee will meet in executive session to consider Judge Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court on this Monday, March the 28th at 3 p.m..
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ketanji Brown Jackson patience, dignity and grace in the face of what was, frankly, so offensive treatment is a real testament to Ketanji Brown Jackson judicial temperament.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm not naming names, i'm just saying a few people have gone off the rails, and I'm disappointed, but we're going to continue to do our work.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There will not be a separate set of rules for Democrats in control of this committee. That was used as a response time and time again by those senators, and it was accepted. If what I said was somehow problematic or painful yesterday, I'm sorry, but the Democrats are going to use the same mechanism that Republicans have used on this committee.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's called chairman's time. It is a tradition on this committee exercised by Sen. Lindsey Graham as chairman and Sen. Grassley.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For many of senators, yesterday was an opportunity to showcase talking points for the November election, for example, all Democrats are soft on crime. Therefore, this nominee must be soft on crime. Well, you've made a mess of their stereotype. The endorsement of the Fraternal Order Police, the International Association of Chiefs of Police just doesn't fit with their stereotype of a Harvard grad black woman who is aspiring to the highest court in the land.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Law enforcement is on your side because you’ve been on their side at critical moments, and your family has dedicated a big part of their lives to law enforcement and you obviously believe it at your core, so the soft on crime charge, which leads all others, falls on its face.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So you had to be clairvoyant and know they had it? so I would be expected to say, geez, after Sen. Hawley asked questions, I'd better call the White House and see if they can help me research this?
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
How would you have reacted if, say, during the Kavanaugh confirmation, the White House shared judicial materials with Republicans and did not share it with Democrats?
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are two issues that came up repeatedly yesterday from the other side of the aisle that I want to address at the outset. One of them was a question of judicial philosophy, lo and behold, I've discovered the answer. It turns out that during the course of your time as a judge, you have… written opinions – 573, to be exact. I think maybe I'm off, what, one or two? And they more or less express your view of the law.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm confident the American people will see through these attacks and any other last-minute attempts to derail Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin confirmation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've heard claims that you are' soft on crime.' These baseless charges are unfair, i'm confident the American people will see through these attacks and any other last-minute attempts to derail Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin confirmation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Supreme Court has a long and storied history... The reality is the court's members in one respect have never really reflected the nation they served, in more than 230 years, the Supreme Court has had 115 justices. One hundred-eight have been White men... No justice has been a Black woman. You, judge, can be the first.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is a dilemma. It's a classic dilemma. We want to provide the equipment that Ukraine needs to survive. We don't want to push Russian President Vladimir Putin into World War III or a nuclear confrontation, it is only the President who can make this decision, and he has urged caution. I can make arguments of one side or the other.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
To be the first to make history in our nation you need to have an exceptional life story, judge Jackson’s achievements are well known to the Senate Judiciary Committee as we approved her to the D.C. Circuit less than a year ago with bipartisan support. We will begin immediately to move forward on her nomination with the careful, fair, and professional approach she and America are entitled to.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Senator Johnson is blocking this committee from proceeding on a nominee Senator Johnson recommended to President President Joe Biden.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Such a lack of communication is unacceptable and frankly disrespectful to William Pocan and William Pocan family.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I would join in Sen. Padilla's request that we be respectful and still discharge our duties within Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We had a meeting on it this morning, we're trying to wrap up two or three issues then I think we'll be ready to go.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
No, we don't need anticipate any difficulties, we just hope he gets back real soon.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
And it was Donald Trump who announced that President Biden nominee was going to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a woman nominee as well. So this is not the first time that a president has signaled what they're looking for in a nominee.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
With this Supreme Court vacancy, President Biden has the opportunity to nominate someone who will bring diversity, experience, and an evenhanded approach to the administration of justice, i look forward to moving the President’s nominee expeditiously through the Committee.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For virtually his entire adult life, including a quarter century on the U.S. Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer has served his country with the highest possible distinction. He is, and always has been, a model jurist.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Perhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric, some of us do, but the fundamental principles and values at stake are very similar.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would like to ask the president what he was thinking, because I don't believe you give Putin an inch. He'll take a mile,and I feel that way towards Ukraine for obvious, obvious reasons.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think it's much stronger, it's a strong message to Vladimir Putin -- much better than the Ted Cruz approach.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The president and the White House, particularly a man named Jeffrey Clark… put a full court press on the acting attorney general to try to enlist them in overturning the results of the last election, it was relentless.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don’t want to let the entire package break down over that issue.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I'll tell you, I voted for both in the past because I have to measure it against the value of the package itself, build Back Better is the future for many working families. It gives them a chance to finally break away from the inequality in our economy and to have some optimism about the future. So, I don't want to let the package break down over that issue.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This would be deadly to our economy. It would cost us six million jobs.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If Dick Durbin thinks Dick Durbin's going to score political points by defaulting on America's debt for the first time in history, Senator McConnell is wrong.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Every vote counts when it comes to getting to this majority. And concessions will be made. And we're certain of that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Unfortunately we can't find the language to clear for the reconciliation.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It shocks the conscience when those failures come from law enforcement itself.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We believe immigration is a critical element in reconciliation for three reasons, first reason: How many years have we all complained that the immigration system in America is broken and needs to be fixed?
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
At a time when public confidence in government institutions has greatly eroded, we must examine not just the constitutional impact of allowing the Texas law to take effect, but also the conservative Court's abuse of the shadow docket.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The President was looking for a green light from an attorney general. Bill Barr reached a point where Bill Barr couldn't do it anymore. And Jeffrey Rosen stepped in, and Jeffrey Rosen was not prepared to do it. And The President said,' we will find another one,'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're going to do our best to ask Jeffrey Clark to come in and tell the story from Jeffrey Clark point of view.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
ATF needs a Senate-confirmed leader, and Mr. Chipman is well-qualified and has been extensively vetted for the role. He deserves to be confirmed.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Given the stark racial disparities in our criminal justice system, this would cause the most harm to Black and brown families and communities already harmed by mass incarceration, children should not be forced to go hungry because a parent is incarcerated.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As I say, the important thing for me is what's in it and how -- is it paid for. So far, the content seems reasonable, and it is paid for and I think that's, that's the important part of the proposal.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In acknowledgment of the threats they face in aiding the Dick Durbin, we must extend and expand the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program in order to ensure their safety and the safety of their families.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would hope we can resolve it soon, there comes a time when we have to say,' This just isn't going to happen.'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Virtually every major law enforcement groupsupports Vanita Gupta, you wouldn't know that would you when you hear on the floor that shewants to legalize all drugs and take money away from the police. Those simplistic statements belie the truth.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I gave Republicans ample time to make their arguments in the committee, i was prepared to give them even more time until the two-hour rule was invoked. But someone on the other side decided to force my hand. I had to act quickly.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just heard about it, i'm not ready to sign on yet. I think this commissionof Biden's is the right move. Let's think this through carefully. This is historic.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Sadly, some are so threatened by a revitalized Civil Rights Division that they have already engaged in baseless attacks on this extremely well-qualified nominee.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Every day it is incumbent on those of us who work in this building to remember Howard Liebengood, and to thank Howard Liebengood, and the men and women of Capitol Police who have given so much to keep us safe.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Judge Garland oversees a host of Department of Justice components and agencies that are vital to protecting our homeland from foreign and domestic threats. Judge Garland's confirmation is particularly urgent in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're reaching a point where it is -- if we have to fear that some members will bring firearms on the floor or visitors will, then we have to take extra precautions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
President Trumps recorded conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant, his disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Democratic Party's always hard, there are always going to be two or three people who say,' Woah, you're moving too fast. You're moving too far to the left. You're moving on issues that don't help me back home.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
She raised the issue. She was questioned by four different senators : two Democrats, Dick Durbin of Illinois included, and two Republicans. What did she mean by this ? Ordinarily, you would never raise the question of religion in a hearing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I've been around here a few years, you can slow things down, but you can't stop them. And there comes a point when we would use whatever tools we have available. But ultimately there will be a vote.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senate Democrats basically have kept options open, senate Democrats'd rather see this go through the regular process that Senator( Mitch McConnell) Mitch McConnell announced four years ago and that all of the Republicans stepped forward and said that Senate Democrats believe in this approach : Senate Democrats don't fill vacancies on Supreme Court in the last year of a president's term.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senate Democrats'd rather see this go through the regular process that Senator( Mitch McConnell) Mitch McConnell announced four years ago and that all of the Republicans stepped forward and said that Senate Democrats believe in this approach : Senate Democrats don't fill vacancies on Supreme Court in the last year of a president's term.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're hoping to work with the parliamentarian and officers of the Senate to come up with something that is bipartisan, makes sense, and protects the integrity of voting on the floor of the United States Senate.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If four Republican senators step up, it can make a big difference.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
He only moves if he's personally concerned about his own re-election or the election of his majority.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Weve got to get beyond this impeachment is the answer to every problem, its become a knee-jerk reaction among many Democrats that if youre unhappy with President Trump or some of his appointments, impeachment is a recourse. ... If thats how we are identified ... we run the risk that people will feel were ignoring the issues that mean a lot to them as families.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It is time to say no - just say no to pharma when it comes to production, let's be careful. HHS needs to be in this conversation.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Incoming Acting FDA Commissioner [ Dr. Ned ] Sharpless must, on day one, work to protect our nation's children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction by putting the full force of The FDA behind this effort, an epidemic must be dealt with immediately, not months or years from now.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What they said over again was technology, they don't rule out barriers, they don't rule out fences. But that isn't the first priority.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Career professionals put technology as their highest priority. And let me add, in fairness to them, they don't rule out barriers. They don't rule out fences. But that isn't their first priority.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The President may be disappointed if we don't give him everything he's asked for, but if this appropriations committee did that, it would be a first in history.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't want to guess what( Harris is) thinking but that is a massive part of the American economy. There is a system in place for funding it, it would take a mighty transition to move from where we are to that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am not going to do anything that I think is wrong, and I will not be bullied into doing anything, I think, is wrong by anybody, whether it be editorial boards or Congress or the president. Im going to do what I think is right.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
What Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have both told the President is we are not going to build a wall, period, secondly, if you want to talk about border security, there are many things we can do.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The administration position was defended by both of them in terms of what we had done naming 17 people who would suffer because we believed they were involved. But there was no satisfying answer about how it is possible that this could have occurred without the crown prince's knowledge or direction.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The absence of Director Haspel was raised by Democrats and Republicans and we were told by those who were there, it was a decision by the White House Director Haspel not be present.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
No idea what they are going to find, i think the FBI is the appropriate agency and that's where it was referred.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The government's conduct in the case had already forced her to delay her decision on an abortion by several weeks.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This President, by This President tweets, has virtually no respect for the rule of law.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You are the nominee of President Donald John Trump. This is a President who has shown us consistently that President Donald John Trump is contemptuous of the rule of law, it's that President who has decided Dick Durbin are his man.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There are many options, many of us feel we need to go beyond a statement of the obvious -- that we stand behind the professionals at the Department of Justice and intelligence community and the Department of Defense. We think the Senate hast to act immediately to do something. At a minimum to have a public hearing to get to the bottom of what happened in Helsinki.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We hope they will join us in a bipartisan effort, they did on the imposition of sanctions despite reluctance from the White House. So, there is some sentiment on the Senate Republican Senate side against Vladimir Putin and maybe we'll see it again.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin're asking me, and I'm saying to you I thought that was an excessive sentence.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
As of today, we don’t have a bill before us, we start anew.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don’t know the position of the president of the United States now, i couldn’t express it after the experience we had a couple of weeks ago. … He hasn’t issued anything by way of a suggested piece of legislation. We haven’t heard from him.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Well here we are. We are just about at the fifth month in the sixth-month period that he gave us.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It would be unrealistic to think we could address comprehensive reform in 14 days.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
He said these hate-filled things, and he said them repeatedly.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In an interview with NBC News, President (Donald) Trump admitted to firing FBI Director James Comey because of his investigation of the Trump campaign's Russian connections, that is dangerously close to obstruction of justice. This morning, the President tweeted a thinly veiled threat to Mr. Comey, which could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It's no coincidence that the Sessions memo was quietly signed on the same day the President was making major headlines for firing FBI Director Comey because of his investigation of Trump — this policy is unjust and unwise and can't withstand even minimal public scrutiny.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I've contacted DHS to demand an explanation. Just last month Secretary Kelly promised me that no one with DACA would lose this protection unless they violated the terms of DACA. I intend to hold him to this commitment.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Merrick Garland -- the only presidential nomination to the Supreme Court, in the history of the United States Senate, to be denied a hearing and a vote.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
In case after case, he favored corporations, lawyers and the special interest elite … over workers, consumers, people of disability and victims of discrimination.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
At this point, I don't believe there are eight Democrats supporting Judge Gorsuch, but Chuck Schumer told us all, 'Wait until the hearings are over, let's do this professionally, let's do it responsibly,' i think that's the right approach.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We have the power to act, and we must, the bottom line is that we allow dangerous people to buy guns in America and that has got to change. In the coming days, Congress must take a stand against hate, terrorism, and this horrific gun violence.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is nothing to concede, secretary Clinton will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to win the Democratic nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I hate to think that this process in the Senate Judiciary Committee is being likened to a piñata contest where we are blindly going to swing at whoever that nominee or piñata is going to be, we have a responsibility to be fair.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I respected his knowledge of the subject, but I was also always struggling with his private life and his new public role in the negotiations.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are things that the oil industry... should be willing to help us pay for in this country.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In the ongoing nationwide debate about the rising cost of college, one of the most basic and direct costs to students is often overlooked: textbooks.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country on earth.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I can tell you that I know Chuck pretty well. I have listened to him carefully and heard his comments about the negotiations carefully, i always expected him to be against the agreement. This didn't come as a major shock or surprise.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I can tell you this: I have great respect for Joe Biden -- a former colleague in the Senate (who) served us a vice president. He's an extraordinary person and I count him as a dear friend, he owes it to himself and his family to take a hard look at this.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He owes it to himself and his family to take a hard look at this.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. we offered the prime minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker Boehner.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We offered the prime minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker Boehner.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We offered the Prime Minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker Boehner with a private meeting with Democrats who are committed to keeping the bipartisan support of Israel strong.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think now's the time to do it, but we ought to do it in a thoughtful way.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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