The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.
The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.
I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.
We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.
The Senate has a constitutional responsibility to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court, and I take that responsibility very seriously.
President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.