[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 20, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2451-S2452]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                          Judicial Conference

  Mr. President, on one final matter, here on the floor yesterday, the 
Democratic leader defended his efforts to restrict rural Americans' 
access to justice. And he laid plain some rather partisan goals.
  Apparently, our colleague is upset that he still has not managed to 
bully the Judicial Conference into embracing his vision of unequal 
justice.
  During the course of his speech, he invited me ``to find ways to 
restore trust in the judiciary.'' Well, I have one. It is the bill from 
Senator Cotton to end nationwide injunctions. The Federal bench, in 
places like Texas and Louisiana, as an entity, isn't what erodes trust 
in the judicial branch. What erodes trust is the ability of individual 
district judges everywhere to apply their orders nationwide. I think we 
should end this practice--in Amarillo and San Francisco, in Lubbock and 
Seattle, in Dayton and in Baltimore.
  If the Democratic leader wants to restore trust in our judiciary, he 
can join

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me in supporting this commonsense nonpartisan reform. Or perhaps he 
would rather have a DHS Secretary in Oakland who just wears a robe.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.