I hope that some of the folks on the other side of the aisle... will also speak out against the kind of reckless nonsense.

I worry about what comes next for public discourse broadly.

The President nominates someone to serve on the Supreme Court, and we have the constitutional duty in the Article I branch of providing advice and consent.

He once wrote that our religious freedom statutes 'do not just apply to protect popular religious beliefs. It does perhaps its most important work in protecting unpopular religious beliefs.'

Our role is to decide cases and controversies between the people under law as it is, not as we would wish it to be.

Judge Gorsuch has cautioned against 'governmental encroachment on the people's liberties,' which could occur should the political majorities of the legislative and executive branches be permitted to decide cases.

I think I am the third or fourth most conservative guy in the U.S. Senate by voting record but I am not particularly partisan.

I think that this Congress does not function as it should on a broad range of issues.

They primarily see political parties. And our Founders did not intend that.

We need a more engaged public.

The theory behind it, in short order, was to divide liberty--to divide power the better to protect liberty.

Well said. And would it be that more who taught legal ethics, and business ethics, and medical ethics, and theological ethics, would assign their students the obituary challenge.

His nomination carries with it a super legitimacy that is also unprecedented in our Nation's history.

We have an opportunity to stand back from more than 200 years of our history to evaluate our civic health and to recommit ourselves to a government that is intentionally limited, to powers that are intentionally distinguished and divided.

Someone who has served almost three decades in the Air Force doing electronic warfare, I do know we are falling behind.

I don't like parity, by the way. I don't want to have a close fight. I think we should not want to have a close fight.

I think this Congress is set to do that. We are going to work hard to put us in a better spot to do deterrence and make sure that we keep the peace.

I thank Chairman Grassley for that question and the invitation to join him in the colloquy. As two of the only non- attorneys on the Judiciary Committee, it is important that we, on behalf of the majority of Americans, who are non-lawyers…