A Senate Democrat just vowed to filibuster Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick

Merkley is the only Democrat who has publicly committed to filibustering any Trump nominee-the president is expected to announce his nominee Tuesday evening-and most Democrats say they will wait until then when they hear who it is. There’s a distinct possibility of a leak before then, as lawmakers, interest groups and everyday citizens appear stoked for a confrontation that’s been almost a year in the making. “I guess one of you guys probably told me about it – thank you for that”, Corker told reporters.

Last week, it was reported Trump had narrowed his contenders for the court to three: Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the federal appeals court based in Denver; Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of Alabama, who served on the federal appeals court based in Atlanta; and Judge Thomas Hardiman of Pittsburgh, who serves on the 3rd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. Scalia himself denied he was a strict constructionist, though the label often stuck to him.

The rallies are a reminder to Democrats of the demand to resist Trump’s agenda.

“Judge Trump Barry is just a great person in every way and Judge Hardiman is really a great person so, it would be shocking to me if their relationship were anything other than warm, or cordial”, Becker said.

“I want to make sure we thoroughly review the record and then go forward”, said Sen. They will be protecting the Second Amendment.

Constitutional Accountability Center spokesman Doug Pennington said his group is “gearing up like everyone else”, preparing op-eds and planning to coordinate with its allies to oppose Mr. Trump’s nominee. From 2002 to 2003, she took leave from the university to work in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, while that office was producing opinions for the White House justifying torture in the war on terror.

Conway declined to say whether she supported Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., using the so-called “nuclear option” to change filibuster rules and force Trump’s nominee through the Senate with a simple 51-vote majority.

In the crowd, protesters drowned out Schumer’s statement with chants of “We are the popular vote”, referencing Trump’s loss of the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by almost 2.9 million votes.

Trump started marketing his eventual Supreme Court choice with two public lists, totaling 21 ostensible candidates.

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s political team sought to reassure donors and other supporters that the temporary ban does not amount to a “religious test”.

If Sean Spicer’s slip of the tongue is accurate, that would mean that Trump is not picking Diane Sykes, the Chicago-based appellate judge from Wisconsin whose name has made a number of short lists in recent weeks.

Gorsuch, Hardiman and Pryor all possess strong conservative credentials.

Occasionally, the Supreme Court will revisit an issue in a new case and change their own precedent, a move anti-abortion activists hope will come to pass with a new conservative justice. “The next appointment is likely to be more important in that regard”. Only nine justices now serve on the bench. He writes with a Scalia-like flair and has degrees from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford. The Senate confirmed Gorsuch by a voice vote in July 2006 and confirmed Hardiman 95-0 in March 2007. President Clinton, in his first term, had two Supreme Court nominees, Ginsburg and Breyer. Even Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a liberal firebrand, angered progressives when she announced last week that she would vote to confirm Ben Carson as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. We understand that there are many Democrats, still seething over the GOP’s nakedly partisan refusal to grant Mr. Garland so much as a hearing, who regard the seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia nearly a year ago as “stolen”.