A top Republican says Trump’s nominee is headed for the Supreme Court. The third-highest-ranking Republican in the Senate, John Thune of South Dakota, says Senate Republicans approved two Supreme Court justices in President Obama’s first term without a filibuster.
“I hope that in the first term of a presidency, when a vacancy like this occurs, that both sides recognize that, yeah, they may not agree entirely on the politics but at least when it comes to the Supreme Court, you want well-qualified people. and he’s certainly well-qualified.”
Thune says Gorsuch is not bound by any political ideology.
“He’s somebody who’s very much in the mainstream, somebody, again, who understands the role of the court in our democracy; is really about being an independent individual, someone who enforces the law, looks at the law and the Constitution, applies them evenly and in a fair-minded, fair-handed way to people across the country, and doesn’t try to push an agenda…Despite attempts by Democrats to derail the nomination, I think he’s going to get a good vote here in the United States Senate.”
Senator Thune was a guest on 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning Show with Doug McIntyre and Leeann Tweeden.