The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Hawley madam president , some months ago, in july of this year, i came to this floor shortly after the conclusion of the Supreme Courts most recent term to lament the ongoing judicial activism, the judicial imperialism that we have seen from this court over this past term and from the Supreme Court for years on end. I quoted the late Justice Scalia who said the imperial judiciary lives, and i said on the floor of this senate it was a shame to say but undeniable that the imperial judiciary continued to live in this country, a judiciary intent, a Supreme Court intent on legislating from the bench, on making up laws that went along with no regard for what the people actually wrote in their statutes or in their laws, and i particularly lamented the position of religious conservatives, people of faith who had seen in this past term for the United States Supreme Court decision after decision, tossing aside the concerns of religious conserv
Watched the senate race in america happening here in kentucky Mitch Mcconnell versus amy mcgrath we the race and the issues and what is at stake. Over the next hour we will talk to the candidates from everything from the covid19 pandemic to the us Supreme Court. Uk Student Government welcomes you to the kentucky debate. Good evening live from the studios frombi lexington and i am joined tonight by u. S. Senate majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and retired Lieutenant Colonel mcgrath. We are following cdc guidelines although in the same studio we are each 20 feet apart each candidate has 60 seconds to answer questions with a brief rebuttal is often one also permitted determining the will answer first and Lieutenant Colonel we will begin with you. Going into the selectiong nothing impacts the voters more than the pandemic dream as part of you should be tested before the debate kentuckys governor and his family are in quarantined after exposure russia the federal government be doing right no
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Of the 1950s as an era of prosperity where america was a world leader and the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth, and its a political construction. The 1950s, in fact was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently, anticommunist took away Civil Liberties and these are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week, but i like ike i like ike as a political construct shifted attention away from those divisions and it created a sense of consensus. In many ways this is a political construction and at the root of it was a v
October 26, 2020 will go down as one of the darkest days in the history of the United States senate. Like the record show that decided toe majority thwart the will of the people and confirm a lifetime appointment to the court in the middle of a president ial election after more than 60 million americans have voted. Tonightrecord show that the republican majority will break 231 years and become the first majority to confirm a Supreme Court justice this close to election day. Tonightrecord show that the republican majority will make a mockery of its own rentable that the American People deserve a voice in the selection of Supreme Court justices, completing the partisan theft of two seats on the Supreme Court using completely contradictory rationales. Let the record show that the American People, their lives and freedoms, will suffer the consequences of this nomination for a generation. Be summede debate can up in three lies propagated by that publican majority and one great terrible trut