"I also want to acknowledge you, my fellow Americans. The president has nominated me to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court & that institution belongs to all of us. If confirmed I wouldn't assume that role...for my own sake. I'd assume this role to serve you." washingtonexaminer.com/news/not-for-m…
ACB: "I fully understand that this is a momentous decision for a president, and if the Senate does the honor of confirming me, I pledge to discharge the responsibilities of this job to the very best of my ability. I love the United States & I love the United States Constitution."
ACB: "Should I be confirmed, I will be mindful of who came before me. The flag of the United States is still flying at half-staff in memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to mark the end of a great American life..."
ACB: "... Justice Ginsburg began her career at a time when women were not welcome in the legal profession, but she not only broke glass ceilings, she smashed them. For that, she has won the admiration of women across the country, and indeed, all over the world."
ACB: "Poignant to me was her long & deep friendship w/ Justice Antonin Scalia, my own mentor. Justices Scalia & Ginsburg disagreed fiercely in print without rancor in person. Their ability to maintain a warm & rich friendship, despite their differences, even inspired an opera..."
ACB: "These two great Americans [Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Antonin Scalia] demonstrated that arguments — even about matters of great consequence — need not destroy affection. In both my personal and professional relationships, I strive to meet that standard."
ACB: "I was lucky enough to clerk for Justice Scalia, and given his incalculable influence on my life I am very moved to have members of the Scalia family here today... I clerked for Justice Scalia more than twenty years ago, but the lessons I learned still resonate..."
ACB: "His [Justice Antonin Scalia's] judicial philosophy is mine too — a judge must apply the law as written. Judges are not policy makers, and they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they hold."
ACB: "The president has asked me to become the ninth justice, and as it happens, I’m used to being in a group of nine — my family. Our family includes me, my husband Jesse, Emma, Vivian, Tess, John Peter, Liam, Juliet, and Benjamin..."
ACB: "Vivian and John Peter, as the president said, were born in Haiti, and they came to us five years apart when they were very young. And the most revealing fact about Benjamin, our youngest, is that his brothers and sisters unreservedly identify him as their favorite sibling."
ACB: "I couldn’t manage this very full life without the unwavering support of my husband, Jesse. At the start of our marriage, I imagined that we would run our household as partners. As it has turned out, Jesse does far more than his share of the work..."
ACB: "For 21 yrs, Jesse has asked me every single morning what he can do for me that day & tho I almost always say ‘nothing’ he still finds ways to take things off my plate. That’s not b/c he has alot of free time...it’s b/c he's a superb & generous husband & I'm very fortunate."
ACB: "It is important at a moment like this to acknowledge family and friends, but this evening I also want to acknowledge you, my fellow Americans. The president has nominated me to serve on the United States Supreme Court, and that institution belongs to all of us..."
ACB: "If confirmed, I would not assume that role for the sake of those in my own circle, & certainly not for my own sake. I would assume this role to serve you. I would discharge the judicial role which requires me to administer justice without respect to persons..."
ACB: "I would do equal right to the poor and rich, and faithfully and impartially discharge my duties under the United States Constitution. I have no illusions that the road ahead of me will be easy, either for the short term or the long haul..."
ACB: "I never imagined that I would find myself in this position, but now that I am, I assure you that I will meet the challenge with both humility & courage..."
ACB: "Members of the United States Senate, I look forward to working with you during the confirmation process, and I will do my very best to demonstrate that I am worthy of your support."
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I was recently among those who was shown the roughly 45 minutes of raw footage of the October 7th terrorist massacre committed by Hamas. This will be a long thread, but I believe worth reading.
The brutal and evil footage was compiled by the Israeli government and shown by the Israeli embassy on Capitol Hill this week. The videos and photos came from GoPro body cameras, cell phones, CCTV cameras, and social media posts. Some of the videos were recorded by Hamas terrorists, and some were recorded by the victims themselves, with many of the videos put together in a sequential order or from the POV of both terrorist and victim during the commission of a specific series of atrocities.
The Israeli government said the 45 minute compilation was pulled together from hundreds of hours of images & videos, and so the footage was just “a glimpse of what happened that day.” No cell phones or recording devices were allowed in the room as the footage played, but I took pages of disturbing notes (I am a recovering journalist after all).
Fr. Mychal Judge — “Victim 0001” — was an FDNY chaplain who responded on 9/11 & spent his last moments comforting firefighters & praying for those forced to jump from World Trade Center. The South Tower collapsed & he was killed, becoming 9/11’s first recorded death. #NeverForget
22 years ago today — 9/11/2001 — al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked planes & slammed them into the World Trade Center & Pentagon (and crashed into a field thanks to passengers on Flight 93), killing 3,000 innocent Americans & others. Honor the heroes who died that day & #NeverForget.
President George W. Bush’s famous Bullhorn Speech to Ground Zero rescue workers and first responders on September 14, 2001.
“I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”
Scoop: Some new details below on the Chinese spying sagas related to Eric Swalwell and Dianne Feinstein — and on the FBI’s handling of the allegations. The revelations raise serious concerns about how the FBI top brass may have politicized these two investigations by limiting the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
New Details on Swalwell & Fang Fang: Axios did a very good story on this in 2020, but much of the following is new. One thing that was actually not in the Axios story but which my source has confirmed — the FBI firmly believed based on the evidence they collected on Fang that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
New Details on Feinstein & Russell Lowe: Politico & other outlets wrote about Lowe starting in 2018, but again much of the following info is new. The Feinstein staffer was being looked at by the FBI for numerous years (since at least 2008), per the source, with a case opened… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
1/ When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another & to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate & equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...
2/ ... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
3/ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure...
We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this...
A thread of the 13 U.S. service-members killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber on Aug. 26, 2021 as they manned the gates at Kabul airport after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. They were put in an impossible situation by Joe Biden, but they did their duty honorably & died heroes.🇺🇸