“No such thing as a Republican judge or a Democratic judge”: Gorsuch

Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick, said on Tuesday he would have no trouble ruling against the president because there’s “no such thing as a Republican judge or a Democratic judge.”

Gorsuch: No difficulty ruling against any party

In his second day of confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch says he has no trouble ruling against anyone, even President Donald Trump, if that’s what the law requires. “Now Republicans on this committee are guilty of their own court-unpacking scheme.”

Monday is the first day of four hearings on Gorsuch a federal appeals court judge from Colorado, likely to carry on the conservative legacy of Scalia and be an early legacy-establishing win for Trump. Gorsuch then settled in to listen as Grassley and Feinstein delivered opening statements, which were to be followed by opening remarks from all the other 20 committee members before Gorsuch gets his chance to speak. Senator Chuck Grassley, the committee chair, will run the hearings, with as many as 20 Senators making statements and asking questions. “Now they’re arguing that the Senate should rubber-stamp their nominees selected by extreme interest groups and nominated by a president who lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.”

Sen. Dick Durbin said the actions blocking Garland and subsequent Gorsuch nomination “is part of a Republican strategy to capture our judicial branch of government.
The Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States.