[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 171 (Tuesday, November 19, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                  Nomination of Mustafa Taher Kasubhai

  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, the Kasubhai nomination, which we will vote 
on in just a few minutes, is deeply personal to me. My parents fled the 
Nazis in the thirties, and not all of our family got out. We lost 
family at Auschwitz, at Kristallnacht, and we saw firsthand the horrors 
of anti-Semitism. My parents' families came to the United States, and 
both my parents served in our Army and vowed to fight for the rest of 
their lives against anti-Semitism.
  When anti-Semitism came to my community again earlier this year, 
Judge Kasubhai drew a line in the sand against that scourge, against 
anti-Semitism. When a White supremacist attacked one of our synagogues, 
Judge Kasubhai recognized the threat when others did not, and he 
ordered that the anti-Semitic suspect be held in jail without bail, 
colleagues. Judge Kasubhai came down on the side of community safety. 
And, just last week, this White supremacist pled guilty to multiple 
counts of Federal hate crimes, and he now faces years in prison.
  Mr. President, I will close with this. I believe that America and 
Oregon will be better and safer and stronger when Judge Kasubhai is 
confirmed. I urge all my colleagues to support him.
  I yield the floor.