Nomination of Benjamin M. Flowers (Executive Calendar)

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Nomination of Benjamin M. Flowers

Now, Mr. President, on the Benjamin Flowers nomination, the nomination of Benjamin Flowers ought to concern every Member of this body. Flowers checks virtually every box the MAGA right expects from its judges. America, this is who Trump is putting on the bench--people far away from what you believe. Flowers has fought against birthright citizenship, against abortion rights, and against the result of the 2020 election. What Flowers has fought for is also disturbing. In 2021, in Ohio, Flowers tried to defend a $250,000 cap on damages for a child sex abuse survivor--a cap the Ohio Supreme Court deemed ``arbitrary and unreasonable.'' Flowers is also on record as saying that a President can simply ignore a court's reasoning when he disagrees with it. Election denial, attacks on reproductive freedom, siding with abusers over survivors and the President over the Constitution--is this the kind of person Republicans want on one of the highest courts in the land? I urge my colleagues to oppose this nomination. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

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Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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