Sen. Graham good morning. I appreciate all of you, all of my colleagues being here promptly. As you know, our Democratic Politics informed the Committee Last night that they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members for asking questions that matter to you, but showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. And each of you, when this is over, i hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that ma
Deployed 117 lawyers to ensure open, fair and honest elections in ten targeted states and an additional 35 for recount. In addition, are in a leaders have trained over 800 lawyers and pull watchers. Members participated at some level, either paid or volunteering to ensure honest elections throughout the country. I want to take the opportunity to recognize all those who volunteered and helped elect donald trump and other republicans. We hope to see you in michigan august 4 and fifth. We dont know if its detroit or grand rapids yet. And offer your assistance in the virginia elections this year. I will turn it over to john to kick off our next panel. Thank you elliott. I am john ryder. Im cochairman of the rn l. A. Im in private practice in memphis and i reject him stealing all my blue suede shoe lines. Thats my role to say thank you, thank you very much, but i do thank you very much elliott, and i want to thank Kimberly Reed our chairman and thank you to david who is the chairman of this
Deployed 117 lawyers to ensure open, fair and honest elections in ten targeted states and an additional 35 for recount. In addition, are in a leaders have trained over 800 lawyers and pull watchers. Members participated at some level, either paid or volunteering to ensure honest elections throughout the country. I want to take the opportunity to recognize all those who volunteered and helped elect donald trump and other republicans. We hope to see you in michigan august 4 and fifth. We dont know if its detroit or grand rapids yet. And offer your assistance in the virginia elections this year. I will turn it over to john to kick off our next panel. Thank you elliott. I am john ryder. Im cochairman of the rn l. A. Im in private practice in memphis and i reject him stealing all my blue suede shoe lines. Thats my role to say thank you, thank you very much, but i do thank you very much elliott, and i want to thank Kimberly Reed our chairman and thank you to david who is the chairman of this
Probably only person that night who voted for donald trump and i thought i would be be back and, in fact, staid until 2 a. M. I did my show an saw the president spoke at 8 30 a. M. And stunned if there was i have been saying this everywhere if the nfl was like them we would be in the publisher protocol. We doapght need the Republican Party and, in fact, they said they dont. When you write a book about what the republicans should do with president elect trumple and i said general do that. Can you do it in 60 days because ive been thinking what would it be like as a republican majority and a republican president . And so slowed down. I did the next few days to put the book on the 24th of the monday after the president was sworn in and its about what . And ought to support the congress, what liberals ought to think about us and how we can actually get stuff done. What do liberals think about us . That were not crazy but the best interest in the country at heart and care about poor people
Judge gorsuchs nomination by invoking the socalled Nuclear Option. For the first time in our history, nominees or the Supreme Court may advance from nomination to confirmation with a simple majority in his body. And ive heard many of my colleagues describe equally to both sides and ive heard analysts and experts say the same. One can question that diagnosis as some respectful scholars in American Enterprise suit and the Brookings Institution have demonstrated that our Political Organization over the last several years and has our current impasse have been driven predominantly by the ever more conservative ideology of the republican party. Your yard. The Gorsuch Nomination lacks the traditional level of support required for the Supreme Court seat and the journalism has chosen a step that democrats clearly and emphatically reject and when we needed to confirm nominees with broad support but were blocked because they were submitted by president obama. I hope it was not too late for cooler