Markey said if Senate Republicans refuse to hold a hearing on Garland’s nomination, it will be “an historic failure to do their job”.
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“Trump picking a Supreme Court nominee is a guaranteed recipe for disaster”, he said.
Most Democratic voters agree with Reid on the issue. Grassley is a specific target because of his chairmanship. In a news conference, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee warned Republicans that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump could pick the next justice. That caused some conservative activists to press for quick confirmation of Garland.
Van Hollen stressed the need for a full bench of nine justices and emphasized Garland’s credentials.
A similar position has been endorsed by Sen.
The White House declined to release Garland’s questionnaire on Monday.
Afterwards, in a statement, Carper said he was impressed with Garland’s “humility” and “respect for the law”. And because we don’t write about it each day, voters continue not to know that it is going on each day. “But you also believe that you want to wait for the election”, Todd said.
Still, the speech could be a sign the White House is preparing to use unorthodox tactics to break the GOP’s election-year Supreme Court blockade.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, blasted Republicans for trying to preserve the seat for Trump to fill.
While Flake said a “conservative jurist” should replace Scalia, Garland could be a better alternative than a potentially more liberal nominee from Clinton.
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The latest push to put Judge Merrick B. Garland on the Supreme Court involved pulping a bunch of trees: The White House on Tuesday delivered a lengthy questionnaire from President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Republicans have maintained that the next president should choose the Scalia’s replacement. Markey says it’s clear that Garland is dedicated to upholding the Constitution. While some Republicans have met with Garland, including committee chair Sen. “And I am a Garland man”. You don’t think he’s qualified to be commander in chief, you don’t think he’s got a rational economic plan based on facts that will lift our economy and create jobs? “If she wouldn’t, obviously we’d give that nominee due consideration”.
