free of discrimination regardless of race and the rights of all americans. these are our rights, these are american rights. so we know the answer to these questions. i have looked through the record, i have had access to, to see the pattern of your decisions. and that's the pattern that really troubles me, judge. i know we are going to get a chance to go through this and i know my colleagues will as well, but it seems so clear that in your courts the same -- the same follow, win over and over again. the powerful, the privileged, big corporations, special interests. over and over again follks that lose are the folks i came to washington to fight for, minorities, the disadvantaged, the poor. this is the challenge before us, this is why so much is at stake. i love that my colleagues keep