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Loomis was on the U.S Nordic combined Team from 2012-2018.

Anti-american agenda. and the president is trying as hard as he can to protect himself from the independent, should be considered in a broader context. the president has been packing our courts with ideologically driven judges who come to the bench with firm positions and clear agendas, who then go on to rule in ways consistent with those agendas. for example, trump nominee james holk, a judge on the fifth circuit has written in favor of unlimited campaign contributions and publicly a ired his v...

S with their children ripped from their arms at the border who rejected attempts to deny the federal funds to cities refusing to be drawn into the war against immigrants. who stopped executive orders aimed at kneecap iping the publ sector unions and who stopped the implementation of the ugly ban of transjegendered american serving in the military, and who ruled that public officials can c cannot block citizens from their twitter feeds and who stopped the government from banning muslims from ente...

Are request for documents in the most constructive period of his life were conceal and the question is always going to be why was all of that material concealed. you have coached and youve mentored judges in going through the process. you are as sophisticated and knowledgeable as anyone who will ever come before us as a judicial nominee, so you know that we have an obligation to inquire as to everything that can be relevant. it is not the numbers of documents, but it is the percentage. there wer...

Chair has adopted this stance which in my view contradicts the basic rules and norms, but i will proceed. mr. chairman -- i have fears about what this nominee will do with respect to our rule of law, but also about basic rights that have been established by past supreme court precedent. the only way to test what his fidelity to the rule of law is in fact is to ask as i have asked every judicial nominee coming before me when i have served on the committee in hearings, whether he believes past dec...

Announced i have been asked many times why the democrats will even bother to go through the motions when we know that our republican colleagues will do anything to support this administrations judicial nominees. there are battles worth fighting regardless of the outcome. a lifetime appointment to the supreme court of someone who will provide the fifth vote on issues impacting the lives of every working american is a battle worth fighting. so i intend to use this hearing to none straight to the a...

And statements and interviews, you have done everything in your power to show those far right groups that you will be a loyal soldier on the court. and im going to use some of those writings and the timing and other indications to show that you are more than a nominee. in fact, a candidate in a campaign that you have conducted. that seems to be unfortunately the way that the system has worked in your case. the norms have been dumbed down and the system has been degraded, but i think that we have...