Jeff Flake in CNN "State of the Union" interviews during 2018

On Government Reform: Block judicial appointments until special counsel protected

FLAKE: Well, this legislation was passed back in April. And it was on a bipartisan basis, which we don't often get out of the Judiciary Committee. It passed 14 to 7, including our chairman voting for it. Since that time, we have processed 50 judges. This has to be a priority now. We have a situation where the president has fired the attorney general and has installed and has given responsibility for the Mueller investigation to somebody who has not been confirmed by the Senate and somebody who has expressed hostility to the Mueller investigation. How in the world my colleagues don't see this as priority now, I just don't understand.