A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.