Judicial Crisis Network’s Chief Counsel Carrie Severino:
“Today, Leader McConnell and his Republican colleagues restored the Senate to its tradition of up or down votes for Supreme Court nominees. In the process, Leader McConnell and his Republican colleagues put conservatives one step closer to preserving Justice Scalia’s legacy on the Supreme Court. Fifteen years ago Senator Schumer fundamentally changed the U.S. Senate by regularly deploying the filibuster to obstruct judicial nominations. He took it to another level with Judge Gorsuch, engaging in the first partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee in history. Leader McConnell and his Republican colleagues deserve an enormous amount of credit for finishing the deplorable practice that Senator Schumer started.”
