[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 211 (Monday, December 14, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7461-S7462]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                          Judicial Nominations

  Mr. President, even before President Trump officially nominated Judge 
Amy Coney Barrett to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the 
Supreme Court, liberals in the media and many of my colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle unfortunately--well, they took it upon 
themselves to be the first to question Judge Barrett's fitness. But 
rather than attacking her record, they launched some truly insulting 
attacks on her religion, her family, her relationship with her husband, 
and her choice to balance a stunning career with a large, blended 
family.
  You can count on the left to choose intellectual isolation, and you 
can count on them to look at a woman on the political right and say: If 
you are pro-family, pro-religion, pro-business, pro-military, pro-life, 
we do not want to hear from you.
  Those attacks may have made the American people cringe, but they 
certainly didn't turn public opinion against Judge Barrett's 
confirmation. That campaign failed miserably. If anything, it provided 
a much needed reminder that, just like the fight for suffrage in the 
1920s, the modern woman's fight for equality in 2020 is about more than 
succeeding in a single job or engaging in a single civic action; it is 
about exercising our right to participate in democracy and engage in 
the public square without having to throw ourselves at the mercy of the 
left's moving goalpost that they use to arbitrarily define what is and 
is not an acceptable way of life.
  Justice Barrett is now the third Justice President Trump has placed 
on the Supreme Court. She is in good company because she is part of a 
class of 229 Federal judges confirmed so far under President Trump, 144 
of them during this Congress. And I expect that we will see a few more 
join the ranks before we adjourn for Christmas, including two 
Tennesseans who are on this list.

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