Chris Coons: ‘We Are Still Very Angry’ About What Happened to Merrick Garland

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COONS: "What I said in the judiciary markup earlier today is that I’m voting against Judge Gorsuch in committee, and that I don’t think we are ready to stop the debate on the floor. When we say we’re having a cloture vote, what’s being widely called a filibuster, what that means is are there 60 members of the Senate who say we are ready to move to the final vote? I don’t think we are, because I frankly think we don’t have a clear commitment yet from the Republican Party that they won’t change the rules on this nominee or the next nominee. As you’ve heard from many of my colleagues and myself, we are still very angry over what happened to Judge Garland. Senator Cornyn said there’s never been a successful partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee, and I said that’s technically correct. Seven months of refusing to hold any hearings or any vote in this committee for President Obama’s last nominee is nothing if not successful, the most successful partisan filibuster ever."