Pence: Gorsuch will join Supreme Court ‘one way or the other’
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Supreme Court Justice nominee, Neil Gorsuch is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. resident Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, has made his judicial philosophy clear through written opinions, speeches and other writings. He is widely described as a federalist and an originalist.
PALM BEACH, Fla. >> Vice President Mike Pence pledged Saturday that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will join the nation’s highest court “one way or the other.”
Pence made the pledge during a speech in Philadelphia to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. His remarks echoed President Donald Trump’s comments from earlier in the week in which the president urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “go nuclear” and scrap longstanding rules requiring 60 votes if Democrats move to block Gorsuch.
A least one Democratic senator has vowed to block Gorsuch’s nomination as payback for McConnell’s decision to wait until after the Nov. 8 election to fill the opening created by the February 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Senate held no hearings or votes on the Supreme Court candidate that President Barack Obama put forward.
Trump on Tuesday announced Gorsuch, 49, a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, as his choice to succeed the conservative Scalia.
Pence said Gorsuch had already met with 12 senators from both political parties and is willing to meet with all 100 senators. The vice president said a candidate to become an associate justice on the nation’s highest court had never faced a successful filibuster and “Judge Neil Gorsuch should not be the first.”
“Rest assured, we will work with the Senate leadership to ensure that Judge Gorsuch gets an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor — one way or the other,” Pence said. “This seat does not belong to any party or any ideology or any interest group. This seat on the Supreme Court belongs to the American people, and the American people deserve a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
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Pence said the Senate had voted unanimously to confirm Gorsuch to his current post, and that nearly a third of the senators who voted back then remain in the Senate.
The Senate’s vote on Gorsuch in 2006 was by unanimous consent, or voice vote. It was not a recorded vote.
8 responses to “Pence: Gorsuch will join Supreme Court ‘one way or the other’”
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“The senate vote on Gorsuch in 2006 was by unanimous consent. Say what? But now he’s such a “Big Bad Wolf”? Cripes! Talk about speaking from both sides of your mouths!
The Democrats need to think of something more Original this time around, instead the same ole “Oppose and Obstruct”.
Pence is a religious bigot, and wants to have someone on the Supreme Court who will carry out the objectives of the Evangelical and Catholic far right, like overturning Roe versus Wade, advance the White Christian Supremacist Dominatist agenda. Anyone endorsed by Pence has far right fascist tendencies and beliefs
Forgot to add, Gorsuch went to a Jesuit high school, and had a club which attacked the liberal teachers. He said, “Fascism now, fascism forever”, just like a militants Jesuit
Where do you get your lies from?
http://www.snopes.com/neil-gorsuchs-fascism-forever-club/
FYI, found this on some news site:
“A least one Democratic senator has vowed to block Gorsuch’s nomination as payback for McConnell’s decision to wait until after the Nov. 8 election to fill the opening created by the February 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Senate held no hearings or votes on the Supreme Court candidate that President Barack Obama put forward.”
This is exactly what a dictatorship looks like: “We WILL have our way no matter what.”
Glad to see that the VP is as tough as President Trump. Get er done.
Headline does not accurately represent what’s in the article. Headline says “Pence: Gorsuch will join Supreme Court ‘one way or the other’”, indicating that he will be approved to the bench.
But the contents of the article states only that his nomination will be voted on one way or another: ““Rest assured, we will work with the Senate leadership to ensure that Judge Gorsuch gets an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor — one way or the other,” Pence said.”
Misleading headline. I guess that’s why this “so-called” President accuses the media of publishing fake news.