Mike Crapo: “I believe we face a constitutional crisis. This Constitution does not provide a supermajority vote for the nomination…”

“I believe we face a constitutional crisis. This Constitution does not provide a supermajority vote for the nomination, for the advice and consent process in the Senate. Our Founding Fathers were very capable and very good at pointing out those circumstances where they believed more than a majority vote was required for this interaction between the Senate and the President established in our Constitution. In a number of different places in the Constitution, whether it is ratification of treaties or impeachment or Presidential veto overrides or the other occasions where our Founding Fathers believed the Constitution required more than a majority vote and instead a supermajority vote, they were very specific about laying that out. With regard to judges, they did not lay out a supermajority requirement.”