Frank Lautenberg: “The fact is, Democrats have used the filibuster only to block nominees with records of extremism. Americans deserve an…”

“The fact is, Democrats have used the filibuster only to block nominees with records of extremism. Americans deserve an independent judiciary with fair judges who will enforce their rights and uphold the law. Republicans want Democrats to blindly confirm result-oriented, agenda-driven judges whose rules of judicial interpretation change to meet their ideological agenda. It is pretty obvious, I guess, to the American people, we are not consenting. That is the choice and the right that the Founding Fathers gave us as Senators. I am not about to give up that right.”