Chuck Schumer: “We have now confirmed 168 of the President's nominees and opposed 4. The President is getting his way 98 percent of the…”

“We have now confirmed 168 of the President's nominees and opposed 4. The President is getting his way 98 percent of the time on judicial nominations. To say that is obstructionism is to rewrite Webster's Dictionary. We have bent over backwards to be fair. In fact, in many of our States, including my own State of New York, when the President and the White House ask for an agreement, we do agree; we are in the process of filling every vacancy in New York. I don't agree with many of the judges we are nominating on particular issues but they meet the fundamental test. The only litmus test I have is not on any one issue but, rather, will the judge interpret the law, not make it. That is what the Founding Fathers wanted judges to do in their infinite wisdom. In their infinite wisdom, they wanted judges to interpret law, not make it; they wanted the Senate, in its infinite wisdom, to be a check--a real check, not a rubberstamp--on the President's power to nominate.”