Patrick Leahy: “over these past 24 hours, the American public has heard a lot of what one could generously describe as wishful thinking…”

“over these past 24 hours, the American public has heard a lot of what one could generously describe as wishful thinking from the other side of the aisle about the history of the Senate in considering nominations, especially recent history of Republican obstruction when a Democrat was in the White House. Their efforts to re-write American history and the history of this Senate remind me of the old Soviet Union, re-writing its history books to suit the ruling party and erasing photos that would reveal inconvenient facts. Their misleading and wrong assertions have been made over and over and over again, perhaps in the hope that repetition would turn those falsehoods into fact. I think it is important for posterity to set the record straight. Last night, echoing Republican press conference, Republicans took to the floor to claim that no judicial nominee had ever been filibustered or blocked from getting a confirmation vote in the history of the Senate.”