[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 208 (Thursday, December 2, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6894]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       A DIMINISHED SUPREME COURT

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I mourn the loss of the Supreme Court of 
the United States of America.
  As a lawyer, I have always had respect for the Court as the highest 
court in the land dispensing justice, but starting with Bush v. Gore, 
it became more political.
  In Shelby v. Holder, it emasculated the Voting Rights Act, destroying 
section 5 and taking the basic fundamental principles of democracy away 
from so many people.
  In Citizens United, it gave the rich and the powerful more and more 
money.
  And then yesterday, it took away women's right to choose.
  To hear some of the arguments from Justice Kavanaugh, to say abortion 
is not in the Constitution so we should leave it to the States, well, 
high-speed internet is not in the Constitution either, but the courts 
can hear cases on that. Nuclear power is not in the Constitution, but 
the Court will hear cases on that.
  To hear Justice Barrett say women can just go a little longer and 
give birth to those children because there will be somebody there that 
wants to adopt that child, deciding for the mothers that they will have 
to bear that child might cost them their life. Childbearing is not 
without risk and takes them away from other things.
  Unfortunately, the Court is very diminished.

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