Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has refused to hold hearings on Garland’s nomination.
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“Garland is not a great choice, but he is not a awful one, either”, wrote Leon H. Wolf, managing editor of RedState.com in a post last week. “We have never in my lifetime had a time where there’s been a nominee for Supreme Court and they haven’t been offered a hearing.” Sen.
If GOP senators are considering that advice, they’re not saying so. The lengthy survey typically is drafted by the committee, completed by the nominee, and then reviewed and made public by the committee in advance of committee hearings. Lindsey Graham of SC and Mike Lee of Utah, declined to comment. “I can’t think of a fairer or more democratic process”.
Sen. Flake also confirmed that Sen. President Barack Obama called him on March 14 to say “he meant to nominate me to the Supreme Court”, Garland wrote. “And Senators should not refuse to even meet with the president’s nominee”, Szeliga said in a statement.
“[Republicans] are scrambling to get behind this hate-spewing nominee”, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Monday. “There is no better example of Republicans marching in lockstep with Trump than the Supreme Court vacancy”. The president should not have politicized a Supreme Court appointment by nominating someone this close to a presidential election. Billionaire businessman Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
The principal said he wasn’t expecting anything to come of it and was surprised when Garland agreed and called back in person.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., met with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland on Wednesday, as it remains unclear if President Barack Obama’s pick for a vacant seat will be considered before November’s general election.
Nearly 70 percent of voters, including majorities of Republicans and conservatives, told the poll they believe Garland should get an up or down vote in the Senate. While Tester sounds fairly optimistic about what he’s heard so far, he insists he’s “not done vetting Judge Garland”. “It calls “BS” to [Republicans’] entire strategy from the beginning”.
While Johnson says he’ll resign if the campaign asks him to, the ABC journalist who profiled Johnson in March for a piece on Trump-supporting white nationalists (because that is a thing this year) notes that the deadline has passed for removing him as a delegate.
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“He was very forthright” in his responses, the Montana Democrat said.
