President Biden has been spending a lot of time courting senators — from both sides of the aisle — ahead of making his decision on who to nominate for a vacant seat on the Supreme Court.
Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois, speak to reporters following a meeting with President Biden about the Supreme Court vacancy.
"We are all excited about the candidates we have heard about," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island added."We all have enormous confidence in President Biden's judgement. We are very aware of the historic nature of this appointment, and very proud of that." Earlier in the week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Biden has been reviewing"binders of cases" authored by the potential candidates.
Biden also met with Durbin and Republican Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, in the Oval Office. Biden and White House officials have continued to have conversations with lawmakers from both parties this week. "I think what he was referring to in those comments was hours and hours and hours of endless closed-door meetings, as it related to negotiating through the course of the fall," Psaki said."But this is an opening on the Supreme Court, which is a lifetime appointment. Which is something the president takes very seriously."
But Supreme Court nominations have often involved partisan battles, said University of Georgia law professor Lori Ringhand, who has written extensively about the process.
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