We should recognize that jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities, trying to get on cable that night, or create a viral video.

There is obviously a trend toward shouting down and canceling opinions that are outside the left-leaning mainstream.

I also believe that pen and pad can facilitate a whole heck of a lot of transparency just fine.

We need the public to believe in the legitimacy of its government, including all three branches.

It is better to debate ideas that you disagree with than shout them down, isn't it?

I think it should be a decision for the Supreme Court to make about whether or not there are cameras in the courtroom, not a decision for the Article I branch to make for Article III.

A huge part of why this institution doesn't work well is because we have cameras everywhere.

I would like to affirm Chris' point about the beauty of the hymn to America you told, through the eyes of your parents, and the changes, the growth in the country over the course of the last two generations.

But with respect to legislative intent, when a Congress of 535 often distracted people, 100 in this body and 435 in the other, pass something, you know, by a 2-to-1-ish vote, and it is a part of a large piece of legislation, how do you…

the idea that judges sitting before this panel should not weigh in on hypothetical cases that are likely to come before the Court, nominees do, nonetheless, have a duty to be very clear about their judicial philosophy, their legal views…

Today, the Senate takes up our constitutional duty to advise the President on his nominee to the Supreme Court.

A Supreme Court Justice performs a crucial, but limited function in our political system, namely, to interpret and fairly apply the text of the law as written and as understood at the time it was adopted.

We're here in part because of decades and decades of recklessness by all three branches.

The Court has ignored restrictions on its authority, inserting itself into policy debates that are supposed to be entrusted exclusively to the two political branches.

The Senate's Advice and Consent Clause and our role is especially important these days when we all, Republicans and Democrats, agree that the nine Justices of the Court exercise a lot of power over policy decisions.

I will oppose it and I hope the Congress does.

We know from backchannel stuff that some encrypted apps that a lot Russian military were using afterwards, they were cheering the fact that they had killed children. This wasn`t some accidental bombing.

I would like to go back to the escalation ladder, though, with these types of weapons.