Everything, because, as the hours were on, and she kept getting attacked in an unfounded way, I -- it truly came home to me how important she will be on the Supreme Court.

I started asking that question before Judge Kavanaugh came before us.

I did not want the fact that women have had to endure -- basically, women -- of this kind of assault and harassment since, as I called -- put it, time immemorial, I did not want that swept under the rug.

That hypocrisy felt particularly glaring to me.

I think court watchers acknowledge there is an ideologically -- ideological split in this current Supreme Court, when we are seeing more cases decided on ideological bases, not on the facts and the law.

I have been a military lawyer for almost 30 years. I represented people as a defense attorney in the military that were charged with some pretty horrific acts. And I gave them my all. This system of justice that we`re so proud of in…

The American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams` representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre.

I have been asking every nominee that comes before the Committees on which I sit the two questions that I asked you at the start of my time.

the minute Justice Gorsuch was confirmed, the Court finally had a conservative 5-4 majority to overturn Abood.

I congratulate you and your family on this historic nomination.

I think the LGBTQ+ community is very, very concerned about that.

an increasing readiness to overturn precedent.