Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Judge Neil Gorsuch faces an “uphill climb” to overcome a Democratic filibuster he is leading and argued that Republicans will be solely to blame if they blow up Senate rules to seat him on the Supreme Court.

“[Senate Democrats] are going to do the right thing, and it will a real uphill climb for him to get those 60 votes,” Schumer told reporters after a closed-door meeting with his Democratic colleagues Tuesday afternoon.