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Senator schumer thank you, everyone, for being here as we arm up the crowd for the spectacular. Senator whitehouse i am here with i our minority leader, chuck schumer, and my friend and former attorney general colleague, dick blumenthal, to call for a little bit of daylight into the dark money that is presently shadowing the nomination of judge gorsuch. During the course of the aring, we exemployed the Supreme Courts role to arbitrate fairly between parties when litigation comes to the highest court in the land. As we saw over and over again, there are 54 partisan decisions from the past Supreme Court that have a very distinct trend. If it is a republican interest versus democratic interests in election cases, they came down in those 54 decisions. 60 for the republican interests against the democratic interests. When cases came before the court that put a corporation up against a regular person, in the 54 partisan decisions they me down 160 in favor of the corporation against the perso
Calendar. There is not one argument they have made that can apply there. In my view, that decision was made in november 2013. For 200 years, the standard for confirmation of a federal judge in the United States senate was 51 votes. That is how the constitution has operated, its how the senate has operated for most of this countrys history. Indeed, no Supreme Court justice in history has been defeated because he was filibustered. The only arguable example is a nomination that was withdrawn in the face of the scandal. No justice in history has been filibustered. The notion of filibustering federal judges was largely the invention of Chuck Schumer in 2001 when george w. Bush became president and Senate Democrats then began unprecedented filibusters of federal judicial nominees. I hope that next week the democrats do not choose to filibuster judge gorsuch, a candidate for whom they voted unanimously just a decade ago. If they do, i am confident the senate will return to the rules that gove