For Immediate Release
January 31, 2017
SCDP CHAIR STATEMENT ON NOMINATION OF JUDGE NEIL GORSUCH TO THE SUPREME COURT
Columbia, SC – South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court:
“The judge nominated by President Obama for this Supreme Court seat, Merrick Garland, was called ‘a consensus nominee’ by Senator Orrin Hatch. But Senate Republicans refused to even give him a hearing; Mitch McConnell said, ‘Let’s let the American people decide.’ Well, by a margin of almost 3 million, more Americans chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump to fill this seat. So President Trump would have been wise to choose a consensus nominee like Merrick Garland. But given Trump’s radical actions since the start of his presidency, we should not be surprised that he has chosen a judge whose record favoring big corporations and opposing civil rights suggests that he is a right-wing zealot. Unless the hearings somehow reveal that Judge Gorsuch’s extreme record will not continue on our nation’s highest court, bring out the cots for a filibuster.”
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