I plead with the Members on the other side of the aisle to stop this. I have folks on our side of the aisle saying: Don't plead with them. Don't plead with them. Let them do it. Because we will have our opportunity someday, and we will make sure there is not another liberal judge ever, ever, to get on that--no more Richard Paezes, no more Ruth Bader Ginsburgs--never, because what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Let them up the ante. We will take all those activist judges they send up and we will shoot them down. Is that what they want? Anybody who gives a political opinion in America no longer will be eligible for the judiciary. We are going to sanitize the judiciary? We are going to send it to 'Mediocrityville'? Is that what we really want here? Because let me assure you, as I live and breathe, that is what will happen. If we keep this up--it is 4 today; it will be 6--in 2 hours it will be 6. The Senator from Utah said pretty soon it will be 12. Why it is only 4? Because you just started. You always start with 1.
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Addressing concerns about judicial nominations and the potential impact of liberal judges.
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