Battles Quote by Wendy Long

The Constitution entrusts the Senate with the duty to provide to the President the 'advice and consent' for a lifetime appointment on the United…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at…

— Alberto Gonzales

The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees,…

— Mitch McConnell

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

— Orrin Hatch

Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues…

— Edward Kennedy

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it…

— Orrin Hatch

If you go back and look at the history of Supreme Court fights from the very beginning there is a corresponding interest, and and…

— Joe Biden

Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote…

— Dana Perino

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce,…

— Elena Kagan

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce,…

— Elena Kagan

The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign…

— James K. Polk

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check…

— Mitch McConnell