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Here’s John Lewis torching the Supreme Court for gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
“Those justices were never beaten or jailed for trying to register to vote. They have no friends who gave their lives for the right to vote. I want to say to them, Come and walk in my shoes.”
“Those justices were never beaten or jailed for trying to register to vote. They have no friends who gave their lives for the right to vote. I want to say to them, Come and walk in my shoes.”
Here’s John Lewis, as a witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee, presciently opposing the confirmation of John Roberts:
He is someone "whose record demonstrates a strong desire to reverse the hard-won civil rights gains that so many sacrificed so much to achieve."
He is someone "whose record demonstrates a strong desire to reverse the hard-won civil rights gains that so many sacrificed so much to achieve."
“We cannot afford to elevate an individual to such a powerful, life-time position, whose record demonstrates such a strong desire to reverse the hard-won civil rights gains that so many sacrificed so much to achieve.”
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/lewis_testimony_09_15_05.pdf
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/lewis_testimony_09_15_05.pdf
Here’s John Lewis scorching fellow Georgian, then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, in 1991:
''What you have is a nominee who wants to destroy the bridge that brought him over troubled waters. He wants to pull down the ladder that he climbed up.'' https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-09-20-9103110450-story,amp.html
''What you have is a nominee who wants to destroy the bridge that brought him over troubled waters. He wants to pull down the ladder that he climbed up.'' https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-09-20-9103110450-story,amp.html
And:
''If you are going to vote to confirm Clarence Thomas to sit on the highest court of our land, you must have some reasons other than the fact that he grew up poor in Pin Point, Ga.”
''If you are going to vote to confirm Clarence Thomas to sit on the highest court of our land, you must have some reasons other than the fact that he grew up poor in Pin Point, Ga.”
And for good measure, here’s John Lewis denouncing as “unreal” Justice Antonin Scalia’s comment during oral arguments that the Voting Right Act amounts to “a perpetuation of racial entitlement.”
With Roberts, Scalia would later vote to cripple the law:
http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/john-lewis-justice-scalia-the-right-vo/amp
With Roberts, Scalia would later vote to cripple the law:
http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/john-lewis-justice-scalia-the-right-vo/amp
