Justice & Law Quote by Jay Alan Sekulow

There is nothing neutral about “we’ve been following” when it comes from a lawyer paid to win a confirmation fight. Sekulow’s line is credentialing disguised as casual observation: it casts his camp as diligent, long-suffering adults in the room, patiently gathering evidence while everyone else is just now waking up. The timeframe does the heavy lifting. “Over the last 15 years” implies depth, consistency, and institutional memory, a way of saying: we didn’t discover Alito yesterday; our approval is earned, not partisan impulse.

The phrasing also smuggles in a quiet reassurance. Alito is framed less as an unknown nominee than as a known quantity already vetted by the steady, procedural machinery of the Court of Appeals. That court becomes a kind of audition stage, suggesting a record that is public, predictable, and therefore safe. Sekulow doesn’t cite decisions or principles here, because the goal isn’t to persuade by argument; it’s to calm by atmosphere.

The subtext is coalition politics. “We” signals an organized network (legal advocates, conservative movement lawyers, religious-right allies) that has tracked Alito’s jurisprudence as part of a longer project: building a judiciary aligned with certain interpretations of executive power, criminal justice, and cultural flashpoints like abortion and church-state questions. Contextually, it’s an anticipatory defense against “extremist” labeling: if you’ve watched someone for 15 years and still endorse him, the implication is that accusations of radicalism are either ignorance or bad faith.