Lindsey Graham

It used to be the understanding of this body that elections have consequences, and you would expect the President who won the election to pick somebody of their philosophy.

I expect President Obama to go to someone like Elena Kagan who is progressive, shares his general view of judging, and who happened to be highly qualified.

I am not trying to trick you. I do not have anything on Greg.

Brett is a judge's judge, someone doing his absolute best to follow the law rather than his policy preferences.

You are probably going to get 55 votes, I do not know, 54 to 56 or 57.

I certainly do not want you to have to lay out a test here in the abstract which might determine what your vote or your test would be in a case you have yet to see that may well come before the Supreme Court.

If you want to pick judges, you better win.

You have never done anything better in my view than to pick Gorsuch and Kavanaugh because you had an opportunity to put well-qualified conservatives on the Court.

People see through this. You had a chance and you lost.

I will do everything I can to make sure he finishes his job without political interference.

Dianne Feinstein is a wonderful lady and has passion on this issue about assault weapons.

We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights. It is important that we not reverse Roe v. Wade.

Who would ever play politics on the campaign trail with Roe v. Wade?

This is shaping up to be the hypocrisy hearing.

The whole argument is, you can be a conservative Republican President, but you got to nominate a liberal to be fair to the country.

I think you got to be blind as to what is going on here.

The solution is to restore a proper constitutional order with a balance of powers.

They voted in 2016, and they wanted judges and Justices who will be faithful to the Constitution.

At the end of the day, it is what this fight is about.

Overturning Heller, I believe, would be a truly radical proposition.

Hillary Clinton explicitly promised to nominate Justices who would overturn Heller v. District of Columbia.

Then-Candidate Donald Trump gave a very different answer. He said he was looking to appoint judges in the mold of Justice Scalia.

Secretary Clinton's answer was clear. She wanted a Supreme Court Justice who would be a liberal progressive willing to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.

I believe this fight is nothing more and nothing less than an attempt by our Democratic colleagues to relitigate the 2016 Presidential election.

Their objective is delay.