“What we are seeing right now with this Supreme Court nomination is partisan politics at its worst on both sides of the aisle”.
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The questionnaire is typically used by all senators to evaluate the nominee’s qualifications and then is used as the basis for developing questions at the nominee’s confirmation hearing.
The White House has moved ahead with the nomination process despite Republicans’ insistence they won’t act.
The meeting comes as the judge has completed a Senate Judiciary Questionnaire.
Outside groups aligned with the White House have also engaged in a PR campaign to pressure Republicans to reverse course, airing ads and holding events in states where incumbent senators are running for reelection.
On Tuesday, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, a former Judiciary Committee chairman and current member of the panel, declined to say he wasn’t concerned about Trump’s potential nominees. “But imagining Donald Trump picking a Supreme Court justice is something I never thought would cross my mind”.
“You’re one of the few Republicans that met with the president Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, you called him a “man of accomplishment”, and somebody with a quote, “keen intellect”.
Courtesy Office of Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Sen.
“It includes key information on Chief Judge Garland’s employment, honors and awards, published writings, litigated cases, judicial opinions, and speeches and interviews”, the White House said in a statement. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, the White House said.
Garland plans to continue his meetings with lawmakers this week. Tester says the two also discussed Garland’s role in the convictions of Montana’s Ted Kaczynski-aka the Unabomber-and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Tom Carper, D-Del., on Wednesday and Sen.
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“If the idea is that Hillary Clinton would pick a new nominee, I question whether that’s something whether even her fellow Democrats want to see”, she said.
