[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 176 (Tuesday, October 31, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6915-S6916]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Nomination of Allison Eid

  Then we have Allison Eid, President Trump's nominee for the Tenth 
Circuit Court of Appeals. She holds the seat that was previously held 
by Neil Gorsuch before a seat was stolen from one administration and 
delivered to the next for the first time in U.S. history--a complete 
denigration of the integrity of this body and the legitimacy of the 
Court, a mar in the record of this Chamber that knows no equal in 
decades. Yet there she is in that seat, adhering to an extraordinary 
degree of

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ultraconservative, partisan, we-the-powerful-and-privileged philosophy.
  She opposes the use of eminent domain to seize properties to be used 
for a public purpose--public parks and highways--as is the purpose of 
eminent domain. Yet she supports the use of eminent domain to rip away 
a piece of property from individuals--private property owners--in order 
to give it to a for-profit corporation, which is the opposite of the 
purpose of eminent domain--once again, an individual hating, if you 
will, of public purpose and a ripping away of individual rights--
destroying them--on behalf of a for-profit corporation.
  She has advocated for narrowing the scope of the Federal Government's 
legislative powers to such a degree that it would be virtually 
impossible to protect clean air, clean water, and civil rights. She has 
attacked the increasing of funding for public schools while she has 
supported sending public funds to private religious schools.
  This path of using legislation like the healthcare bill and 
legislation like this tax bill to crush working America on behalf of 
the very wealthy is simply wrong, and it is wrong to do it by trying to 
pack the court, and we need to do everything that we can to stop it.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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