Remember this guy? He was once a Supreme Court nominee. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
I’m telling my Democratic colleagues, if you do not allow up-or-down vote on this guy … then you don’t care about the traditions of the Senate and you don’t care about President Trump being treated fairly. … [T]he one thing I will not do is allow President Trump to be denied what every other president’s had the ability to do, is to nominate qualified people.
So, yes, I’m not going to play the game two different ways. I hope I never have to get there [to the nuclear option]. But I want you to know that I am not going to play the game where they get everything they want and we never get anything.
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— Senator Lindsey Graham, offering his thoughts as to whether he will sign on to the nuclear option for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation, during an interview with CNN’s Kate Bolduan.
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