From the US Senate Floor:
...I am sure that is true for many in this Chamber. (click here) I know that I certainly do not hear about filibusters and judges when I go back to Illinois and hold townhall meetings with people across the State. What I hear about are veterans who are concerned about their disability payments and families who are talking about how high gas prices were or how difficult it is to pay for college. And so I think this argument we have been having over the last several weeks about judicial nominations has been an enormous distraction from some of the work that is most important to the American people....
He has always opposed the dysfunction of the Congress.
...I do not expect the President to appoint many judges of my liking....
When he made that statement it wasn't based in race. It was based in his Democratic political values.
...This is a special court. (DC Circuit) It has jurisdiction that other appeals courts do not have. The judges on this court are entrusted with the power to make decisions affecting the health of the environment, the amount of money we allow in politics, the right of workers to bargain for fair wages and find freedom from discrimination, and the Social Security that our seniors will receive. It is because of this power that we deserve to give the American people a qualified judicial nominee to serve on the DC Circuit....
There is no direct analogy regarding Janice Rogers Brown and Loretta Lynch. The nomination of Ms. Lynch is not a life time appointment. Oddly, even FOX is stating the delay of the vote regarding Ms. Lynch is crazy. No lie.
...The test of whether a judge is qualified to be a judge is not their intelligence. It is their judgment....
This disqualifying of Ms. Brown is from a lawyer, a Senator at that time (Is there any doubt why Barak Obama is now our President? There should not be.) and African American. It is a significant reality.
...Unfortunately, as has been stated repeatedly on this floor, in almost every legal decision that she has made and every political speech that she has given, Justice Brown has shown she is not simply a judge with very strong political views, she is a political activist who happens to be a judge....
...Justice Brown tends to favor whatever interpretation leads her to the very same ideological conclusions every single time....
Some of the objections of Ms. Lynch is not her qualifications but her political leanings. She is a not a judge, she is an attorney being judged. She is allowed to have political leanings and I would expect President Obama to choose an Attorney General that had the same political leanings as him. Ms, Lynch is highly qualified and will be an excellent AG for the remaining time President Obama is in office.
The Senate needs to vote. They need to vote on her qualifications and not her politics.
Isn't that right Senator Corker?
