Everyone has acknowledged this discussion is over.

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Everybody who knows how criminal justice works thinks this is a bad idea.

These are important policy issues that we have to get straight between our two branches of government, and the decision today is a big step in the wrong direction.

Florida's system is in meltdown. That's the state that has the mess because politicians created it.

I would hope that Sullivan would require the investigation be a fully public event.

Just because a religion owns a particular hospital doesn't mean they get to set all the rules.

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

I've been a member of the Judiciary Committee for 20 years, and chairman for 12 years. This is the first time that we've ever had a letter or any type of direct report from a member of the Supreme Court regarding misconduct taking place at the Supreme Court. It's extraordinary.