Mark Warner: “If we were to set a precedent that nominees reported out of the Judiciary Committee were subjected to a 60 vote…”

“If we were to set a precedent that nominees reported out of the Judiciary Committee were subjected to a 60 vote requirement, this precedent would disrupt the carefully crafted system of checks and balances embedded in our Constitution by giving the Senate far more power in the judicial selection process than the Executive Branch, the President. These nominees deserve a simple up-or-down vote as provided in the Constitution by the absence of any reference to a supermajority or a 60 vote requirement.”