President Trump\u2019s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court presents a dilemma for Democrats, according to David Boies, an attorney who has argued landmark cases before the high court.
Federal Judge Neil Gorsuch is President Trump’s pick to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Gorsuch has served on the 10th U. S. Circuit Co…
\u201cYou have somebody who is a brilliant legal mind, somebody who if you had an academic test for judges would pass all those tests. On the other hand, he is not in what I believe to be the mainstream of judicial thought. And one of the things we learned from Judge [Merrick] Garland is that it\u2019s not enough to be a brilliant judge. It\u2019s not enough to be a great judge. If that were true, there wouldn\u2019t be a vacancy. Judge Garland would be in that seat,\u201d Boies, chairman of law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner, said Wednesday on \u201cCBS This Morning.\u201d
Senate Republicans blocked Garland from getting a hearing for 10 months, killing his chances of confirmation so that President Obama\u2019s successor could nominate a replacement.
President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy is federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch of Colorado. CBS News chief legal corr…
Nominated almost a year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia , Gorsuch has served more than 10 years on the 10th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver and is considered to be a conservative judge. Harvard and Oxford-educated, Gorsuch was confirmed to the appeals court in 2006 without opposition.
Boies, who helped lead the legal fight to overturn California\u2019s gay marriage ban and paved the way for marriage equality, said Gorsuch\u2019s ideology is \u201cprobably comparable\u201d to Justice Scalia\u2019s, \u201cmaybe even a little more conservative on some issues.\u201d
Judge Neil Gorsuch will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday, meeting senators who will decide his nomination. Gorsuch will need to get past Senate Democ…
Gorsuch will need to get past Senate Democrats, however, who are still furious that Republicans blocked Garland\u2019s Supreme Court nomination. But according to CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes, some Senate Democrats have expressed skepticism but not outright opposition.
\u201cI\u2019m troubled by his stance on privacy rights, particularly women\u2019s health care, worker and consumer protections, public health and safety. I\u2019m going to continue to review his record,\u201d Connecticut Sen. Dick Blumenthal said.
If Democrats try to block the nomination, GOP leaders could decide to exercise what\u2019s called the \u201c nuclear option \u201d and abolish the filibuster, inflaming partisan tensions even further.
Despite the divide between the two parties over the confirmation process, Boies is convinced it will not come down to \u201ctit for tat.\u201d
\u201cI think what is important for the Supreme Court is that you do have ideological balance,\u201d Boies said. \u201cYou can\u2019t have a rule that only Republican presidents get to appoint Supreme Court justices and the Democrats have to accept whoever the Republican puts up. I think it\u2019s unfortunate.\u201d
Boies said there have to be the same rules for both Republicans and Democrats. Without it, \u201cyou don\u2019t have balance on the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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