"I just look at this institution as really the last bastion of protecting the rights of the minority, and we should be very careful before we try and make any changes."
- Senator John Warner (R-VA), April 19, 2005
Warner was one of a majority of 55 Republican senators when he made the statement above. He was also a member of the so-called Gang of 14 who forged a compromise over Democrats' hold on some of Bush's judicial nominees, averting a Republican move to end the filibuster specifically for judicial nominees (perhaps because they still remembered that during Clinton's presidency, they blocked far more judicial nominees than the Democrats did under Bush).
