Amount Quote by Gail Collins

With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint…

— Terry Eastland

When it comes to judicial nominations, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are fond of reminding Republicans that elections have consequences.

— Ron Johnson

I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.

— Saxby Chambliss

I mean, Donald Trump has been able, because of Mitch McConnell, to seat more circuit court judges almost than Barack Obama did in eight…

— Sam Seder

Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we…

— John McCain

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

— Saxby Chambliss

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

— Steve Chabot

How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts…

— Terry Eastland

President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

— Mitch McConnell

Republicans can nominate bad Justices, too. Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, David Souter... the list goes on.

— Wendy Long

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

— Spencer Abraham

We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee…

— Wendy Long