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This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God, you’re not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge.
— Sen. Tom Cotton, during an exchange with Attorney General Merrick Garland at an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he tried to link the Justice Department’s offer of federal assistance to protect teachers and school board members from threats of violence, to a student’s sexual assault in Loudoun County, Virginia. In 2016, Cotton was opposed to confirming Garland as a Supreme Court justice during an election year, and in 2021, Cotton delayed Garland’s confirmation as attorney general. Cotton, a Havard Law graduate, is the keynote speaker at the Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner at this year’s Federalist Society Convention.
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