I WANT TO COMMENT ON LAST EXCHANGE. JUDGE, THIS IS NOT OF YOUR MAKING SO IT'S REALLY NOT ABOUT YOU. BUT REPRESENTATIVE GREEN, WHO IS A FINE MAN, CAME UP AND SAID THAT HE THOUGHT THE EX CHANGE BETWEEN YOU AND SENATOR LEAHY AT THE END ABOUT THE ARC OF TIME AND HOW FAR WE'VE COME AS A NATION WAS -- [INDISCERNIBLE] -- I GUESS HERE'S THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, TO MY DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES. I WISH YOU HAD THAT SAME ATTITUDE WHEN AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE IS APPOINTED TO HIGH OFFICE IN THE JUDICIARY. SO WHAT HAPPENED WITH JANICE ROGERS BROWN? IN 2003, SHE'S AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN NOMINEE FOR THE D.C. DISTRICT COURT, 54 YEARS OLD, A LITTLE BIT OLDER THAN YOU. BUT PRETTY CLOSE. SHE WAS A DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF SHARECROPPERS, A CHILDHOOD IN ALABAMA UNDER JIM CROW. SHE WAS A SINGLE MOTHER, A MEMBER OF THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT. INSTEAD OF CELEBRATING HOW FAR WE'VE COME, MY DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES FILIBUSTERED HER AESSENTIAL TO THE D.C. CIRCUIT COURT. BECAUSE IT'S WELL KNOWN ON OUR SIDE THAT WE WERE VERY MUCH CONSIDERING HER TO BE THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT. SO RATHER THAN THIS WONDERFUL EXCHANGE, WHICH WAS WONDERFUL, REPRESENTATIVE GREEN, WHERE WERE YOU AND OTHERS WHEN THERE WAS A WHOLESALE ASSAULT ON HER NOMINATION? NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. THE FILIBUSTER WAS USED FOR TWO YEARS TO STOP HER NOMINATION. AND WE EVENTUALLY DID A GANG OF 10, OF WHICH I WAS A PART, SO SHE COULD MAKE IT THROUGH. AFTER A TWO-YEAR DELAY. THIS IS WHAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT SAID WHEN HE WAS IN THE SENATE, JOE BIDEN. ASKING ABOUT HER, JANICE ROGERS BROWN, BEING ON THE SUPREME COURT. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT WOULD BE A VERY, VERY, VERY DIFFICULT FIGHT AND SHE PROBABLY WOULD BE FILIBUSTERED. THAT'S WHAT HE SAID ABOUT AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE NOMINEE BY PRESIDENT BUSH WHO HAD SERVED FIVE YEARS ON THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT. WE'RE NOT GOING TO LIVE IN AN AMERICA LIKE THAT ANY LONGER. TO MY DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES. IF YOU'RE A PERSON OF COLOR, A WOMAN, SUPPORTED BY LIBERALS, IT'S PRETTY EASY SAILING. BUT IF YOU'RE MIGUEL ESTRADA, JANICE ROGERS BROWN, AMY COHEN BARRETT, ON AND ON AND ON, YOUR LIFE GET TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. I JUST MAKE THIS OBSERVATION THAT WHEN YOU COME UP TO ME AND TALK ABOUT HOW MOVING THE EXCHANGE WAS, I AGREE. I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE OF COLOR, A WOMAN OF COLOR, THAT WAS PICKED FOR THE D.C. CIRCUIT, ONE OF THE HIGHEST COURTS IN THE LAND, THAT DID NOT MEET THE SAME FATE. AND THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE OVER. DO YOU BELIEVE ILLIAM IMMIGRANTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED -- ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO VOTE, JUDGE JACKSON? 