Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) had to be reminded on Wednesday morning that he once voted to confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch for a post as a Circuit Court judge.
"Do I have it right that you voted 'aye' on the voice vote in 2006 when Gorsuch was up for the federal appeals court?" Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist asked Durbin.
"Good question, Willie. I just don't remember, to be honest with you," Durbin responded. "On voice votes, you don't make much of a note of it."
In 2006, President George W. Bush nominated Gorsuch, then a deputy associate attorney general in the Justice Department, to serve as a judge on the Colorado-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Gorsuch was quickly approved by the Senate in a voice vote.
Geist reminded Durbin that he had in fact voted to confirm Gorsuch back in 2006 and asked why his opinion of Gorsuch may have changed.
"The congressional record shows you did vote in favor–it was a unanimous vote, but has something changed in your view of Gorsuch since 2006 when you did vote 'aye' for him?" Geist asked
"No, but just take a look at what has happened in the past. When someone moves up to the Supreme Court level, different, important questions are asked, and people are much more careful," Durbin responded.
Even before Gorsuch was nominated, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) pledged to filibuster any nominee that President Trump put up for the Supreme Court.
Gorsuch, a Harvard Law classmate of President Obama and a Marshall scholar, said during Tuesday night's announcement that he will "be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country."