Come Quote by Thom Tillis

The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch's confirmation comes from a handful of Democratic Senators who are using the playbook of far-left special interest groups,…

— Thom Tillis

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

— Hendrik Hertzberg

When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, I said that he deserved a fair hearing and a…

— Dick Durbin

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

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about…

— Angus King

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of…

— Evan Bayh

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

The structure of the Senate concentrates power in a small subset of states that are much whiter, much more rural, much more conservative than…

— Ritchie Torres

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is…

— Jim Bunning

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

— John Cornyn

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

— Saxby Chambliss

The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not…

— Juan Williams