Al Franken Quotes

When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.

Voting on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is one of the most important duties of a U.S. Senator.

I am very pleased with President Trump's selection of Judge Neil Gorsuch as his first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

I, for one, want to see Mr. Cruz as a Supreme Court appointee.

I think that one reasons I like Brett Kavanaugh is he was clearly one that was gonna interpret the Constitution.

We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.

The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do.

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature.

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications.

The [Supreme] Court did not interpret the Constitution—the court amended it.

No matter whether th' Constitution follows th' flag or not, the Supreme Coort follows th' iliction returns.

Conservative Supreme Court Justices have overturned many more decisions arrived at by legislative majorities then have liberal justices.