Statements about Legal Issues
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
"Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws."
Says Mitt Romney "is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception."
Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, "you can sue if you are unemployed and don't get the job and think you weren't hired because you are unemployed."
Says that in his book, Rick Perry said that "Social Security is unconstitutional."
"We've had 11,000 attempts to amend the Constitution since 1789."
By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."
"Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war."
On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack "that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
Says Justice Elena Kagan recused herself in "many cases where she had little role" as solicitor general, simply because of the appearance of a conflict of interest.
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
"Sharron Angle voted to protect sex offenders."
Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
"People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave."
"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."
"President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office."
"The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules."
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