Republican senators are reacting to President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the sentences or pardon January 6 insurrections.

While some dodged questions or seemed to stand by Trump, others expressed uneasiness or objected to the decision to give a blanket pardon to more than 1,000 January 6 prisoners, including ones who were convicted of assaulting police officers.

Here’s what some of the lawmakers are saying:

Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, who has warned before about giving a blanket pardon to January 6 attackers said “I just can’t agree.” He said the move “raises a legitimate safety issue on Capitol Hill.” Tillis has often talked about how he was the last senator leaving the chamber on January 6. He said he’s going to file two bills to increase “penalties up to and including the death penalty for the murder of a police officer, and increasing the penalties and creating federal crimes for assaulting a police officer.”

Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wouldn’t say what he thought or if he agreed with the decision only saying, “as I said it’s the president’s prerogative.” Asked if he was comfortable, he said that’s not the question.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that Biden “opened the door” for that action. “We said all along that Biden opened the door on this,” Thune told CNN. Asked again later about the pardons, Thune said, “We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward.”

Sen. James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma, told CNN he was still digesting the “details” of Trump’s pardon and commutation for January 6, but pressed on how some of the recipients were responsible for attacking police officers, he said “I think if you attack a police officer that’s a very serious issue and they should pay a price for that.”

Sen. Kevin Cramer, a Republican from North Dakota, said he was uncomfortable with the concept of blanket pardons, comparing Trump’s pardoning of January 6 rioters to former Biden’s preemptive pardons for his family members, but said there’s now a “clean” slate. “I’m uncomfortable with all of it. That said, I’m willing to look forward instead of backwards, and I do think that that’s what this episode does. It provides us a chance, whether we like this pardon or don’t like that pardon, or like a different pardon or not a different pardon.”

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said she’s concerned about the message that the pardons send to the US Capitol Police who protect the lawmakers every day. “And I do fear the message that is sent to these great men and women that stood by us,” she said.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana who is up for reelection and facing a primary in the state, told CNN: “I’m a big ‘back-the-blue’ guy. I think people who assault police officers — if they do the crime, they should do the time.”

Murkowski and Cassidy voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment trial in 2021.

This post has been updated with additional reactions.