The list keeps growing. First, a freshman Democratic U.S. Senator is joining her colleagues in filibustering Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee:
Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said today she will vote against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, who has “refused” to honor her request to meet with him over the past several weeks.
The junior senator from Nevada said she supported “full consideration” of Gorsuch, read his Tenth Circuit opinions and dissents, reviewed his private practice cases, watched his confirmation hearings and requested a one on one meeting with him. But her spokesman said that he has not done so despite her attempts to schedule a meeting with him and that her office was asked to make an argument for why the Supreme Court nominee should meet with her.
Cortez Masto will also vote no on cloture on Gorsuch’s nomination — required to overcome a filibuster and proceed to the final vote. She said that she believes that a “nominee of such importance” should require 60 votes to be confirmed, in line with what Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has said.
And another Democratic Senator up for re-election next year is also joining her colleagues:
Washington’s junior United States Senator Maria Cantwell announced today that she will be joining her seatmate Patty Murray and many other Democratic Senators in filibustering Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as well as voting no on his nomination should the filibuster be broken.
“We need a U.S. Supreme Court justice who will stand up for equal justice for all,” Cantwell said in a statement. “I still have questions and concerns about Judge Gorsuch. Therefore, I cannot support cloture and will not support the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Cantwell, who takes a methodical approach to her work in the United States Senate, met personally with Gorsuch and read up on his record, studying many of the cases he was involved in to gain an understanding of his jurisprudence.
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