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Mr. CASTEN. Mr. Speaker, what should we say to angry men in robes?
Reconstruction-era amendments to our Constitution that said that anyone born in America can't have their voice or their vote suppressed, regardless of their race?
finally enshrined those protections into law through the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts?
their robes, and their robes alone, are going to scare us into silence; that it will let them force their racist and unconstitutional wills on us?
society, to which I would ask you all: Does your answer to those questions depend on whether that robe is white or black?
us all into silence.
I ask you again: What are we going to say to all of these angry men
in robes?
Because we do have a voice in this body. We have the legislative authority to slash their jurisdiction, to take away their ability to decide what cases to hear.
encroachments, to defend the Constitution, and to defend every American who yearns for a country that is better than this.
Now, some of you are no doubt going to favor silence. But the best among us in this body right now are going to lift every one of our voices and sing. We are going to sing a song that is full of the faith that all of that dark past has taught us but is rich with the hope that this present has brought us. Make no mistake, every one of us, the singers and the silent, are going to be heard.