In July, Chuck Grassley said he would not process a nomination to the Supreme Court in 2020 if he were still chairman of the Judiciary Committee. qctimes.com/news/state-and…
“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."
LINDSEY GRAHAM on Oct. 3, 2018:
"If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait to the next election.”
LINDSEY GRAHAM on May 17, 2020:
“You had the president of one party…and you had the Senate in…the other party [in 2016]. A situation where you've got them both would be different. I don't want to speculate, but I think appointing judges is a high priority for me in 2020."
May 28, 2020
HUGH HEWITT: [If a vacancy occurred] would successors be confirmed before the election?
LINDSEY GRAHAM: I think that would be the goal. … So if a vacancy did occur … you would see an effort by Republicans, I’m sure, to fill the vacancy.
LINDSEY GRAHAM on Jan. 13, 2019:
"If there is an opening, whether it's Ginsburg or anybody else, I will urge the president to nominate a qualified conservative … I'm going to be hell-bent to put a conservative to replace whoever steps down for whatever reason."
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After the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, some Republican senators said that the legal system — and not impeachment — should be used to consider Donald Trump's actions.
Now, those same senators are criticizing the legal system.
Mitch McConnell
Feb. 13, 2021: "We have a criminal justice system in this country ... former presidents are not immune."
July 19, 2023: "I'm not going to start critiquing the various candidates for president."
John Cornyn
Feb. 13, 2021: "The Constitution makes legal offenses committed while in office subject to investigation and prosecution after a president is no longer in office."
Aug. 4, 2023: "The Biden Justice Dept [indicting] their principal opponent"
House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Pete Aguilar on potential stock trading ban:
"Supporting increased accountability and transparency is something that we all stand behind. Making sure that we are held to the highest standard is exactly what the Democratic Caucus stands for."
Pelosi on stock trading limits in Congress:
12/15/21: "We are a free market economy, they should be able to participate”
1/20: “I do come down always in favor of trusting our members"
2/9: “If that’s what the members want…then that’s what we will do"
"Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation."
“Investigators had been concerned about material from what the government calls ‘special access programs,’ a designation even more classified than ‘top secret’ that is typically reserved for extremely sensitive operations carried out by the US abroad.” nytimes.com/2022/08/11/us/…
INGRAHAM: There were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities or nuclear issues?
BOBB: I don't believe there were.
INGRAHAM: Do you know for a fact?
BOBB: I have not specifically spoken to the president about what nuclear materials may or may not have been in there.
“Corporate PAC contributions to Republican objectors have plummeted by ~2/3…94 Republican objectors raised ~$11m from corporate PACs through 11/30/21, the most recent data available. The same…objectors raised ~$27m from corporate PACs through 11/30/19” popular.info/p/the-truth-ab…
"Toyota is again contributing to lawmakers who resisted certifying the official results of the 2020 presidential election, despite the Japanese automaker's pledge last summer to halt such financial support.”
“No one, starting with the Taliban, has an interest in going back to a civil war … if they start something up again, they’re going to be in a long war.”
Special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad on May 18:
“The statements that the forces will disintegrate and the Talibs will take over in short order are mistaken. The real choices the Afghans will face is between a long war and negotiated settlement”