[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 86 (Thursday, May 19, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                     VIOLENCE AT THE SUPREME COURT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, we have seen recently that the Supreme 
Court has decided to take up the Dobbs v. Jackson case, and, indeed, a 
deplorable action came out with the leak of a possible draft of what 
the decision might be.
  What has that caused since? Violence by the left, extreme violence. 
Indeed, some of that violence was led by Senate Majority Leader Schumer 
against that Court.
  What do we have going on here if we can't rely on our courts and our 
institutions to be able to make arguments in their chambers without 
being threatened with violence?
  Indeed, it is a controversial subject, but there is no consensus on 
Roe v. Wade in this country. It is a 50-50 deal.
  Indeed, the Court is taking up an issue, trying to right a wrong for 
50 years that should have been done by a legislative process. Courts 
are not to be legislating from the bench. That is what happened nearly 
50 years ago.
  This will put the question back to the State legislatures, or this 
one right here, where the people can be heard by their elected 
officials, by their elected Representatives in a committee process, in 
a hearing process, interactions, townhalls, and all that, and not have 
five out of nine on a court decide for them.
  This is on the right track, but the violence is not as you pass by 
the fences around that Court.

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