Richard Durbin actually said...

the expectation that a nominee to the Supreme Court should have a judicial philosophy... bothers me a bit.

I believe that the admonition of the Leader on the Republican side, Senator McConnell, that our hearing be fair and respectful of the nomine...

The conduct that's been described is reprehensible and I think everyone in this room agrees.

As Justice Scalia taught us, an indispensable feature of the republic the Constitution created is an independent judiciary of judges who've ...