Stephen Miller: “I stand here proudly next to a copy of the U.S. Constitution. It is a document that has stood the test of time. It is a…”

“I stand here proudly next to a copy of the U.S. Constitution. It is a document that has stood the test of time. It is a document that is revered throughout the world. As a history professor, I have read it many times. But I need to know tonight where in the U.S. Constitution does it say the President's nominees for the judiciary must have a supermajority to be confirmed? Where does it say that? I have searched high and low for that clause and that provision. I cannot find it. Maybe these old 71-year-old eyes are getting kind of dim. Perhaps I need a magnifying glass. I seek. I search. I hunt in vain. For is it not there. Even if I had the eye of an eagle I could not find it because it is simply not there. No, the U.S. Constitution says only the Senate is to advise and consent on the President's nominees. Somehow that has been twisted and perverted into this unmitigated mess we have today where 59 votes out of 100 cannot pass anything because 41 votes out of 100 can defeat anything. Explain that to Joe Sixpack in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Explain that to this man, James Madison, who wrote that Constitution. He predicted and he feared some day someone would try to finagle this system, that they would try to plot and conspire and pervert the process in just the way they have. James Madison warned about this in Federalist Paper 58. He said: If that should happen, 'The fundamental principle of free government would be reversed.'”