Watson Coleman: “Even if it was 2 percent, we don't disregard the Constitution. Certainly if you are looking at 30 percent, that is…”

“Even if it was 2 percent, we don't disregard the Constitution. Certainly if you are looking at 30 percent, that is outrageous. That is outrageous. One of the things that troubles me as a new Senator, as is my colleague from Missouri, as is my colleague from Arkansas--I think we still have this great kind of sense of awe, but one of the things that troubles me--and I haven't been here, but I have heard so much of the debate--they say, they did it to us in the past. Let the record be very clear. Of the past 11 Presidents' judicial nominees, there were 2,372 confirmed. None were stopped by a filibuster. This whole thing about what you did to us in the past, of course, now we are doing to you. Then what will those who follow us do? What are the consequences of that? I will tell you, I will stand on the floor of the Senate and say I will apply the same standard to judges with a Republican President that I will if there were ever to be a Democratic President and I am serving in this institution. Are they competent? Are they committed to preserving and upholding the Constitution? That is what the judges we are talking about all have said. You have to get right to it. They are being opposed because there are special interest groups who don't like their position on a particular issue, most probably abortion. Judge Pickering, by way of example, is somebody.…”