Ben Cardin actually said...

Each Justice can play a critical role in forming the needed consensus in our nation's highest court.

I think you will find that each member of this Committee and each member of the United States Senate wants to do what is right for our count...

For this reason, we need to know how our nominee might approach these issues and analyze these decisions.

I believe it would be wrong for Supreme Court Justices to turn their back on landmark Court precedents protecting individual Constitutional ...