Chuck Grassley actually said...

"In any Supreme Court nomination, the most important thing that I look for is the nominee's view of the law, judicial philosophy, and view on the role of a judge in our constitutional system."

"Our Democratic colleagues have abandoned that standard long ago."

"To them, deciding what the Constitution means is really a 'value judgment.' Under that approach, judges can exercise their own independent value judgments."

"Some of us believe that judges are supposed to interpret the law as it was understood when written, not make new law or simply fill in a vacuum."