The list of Republicans willing to support President Joe Biden’s forthcoming nominee to the Supreme Court “is longer than you would initially imagine,' the Senate's second-ranking Democrat recently teased to reporters.
WASHINGTON — The list of Republicans willing to support“is longer than you would initially imagine," the Senate's second-ranking Democrat recently teased to reporters.
Graham has at times signaling a willingness to partner initially with Democrats, only to retreat to a partisan corner., a Trump nominee for the high court, from accusations of sexual assault, and it was Graham who brazenly abandoned a promise to refrain from confirming a justice in a presidential election year.
The White House says Childs, who had been nominated for a federal appeals court at the time Breyer made his retirement announcement, is under consideration even as some liberal advocacy groups and labor unions question her record. While Graham has supported many Democratic judicial nominees, he also has hewed to the party line in two critical moments — the first in blocking now-Attorney General Merrick Garland from even getting a hearing when he was nominated for the Supreme Court during the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency. Then, four years later, he did an an about-face as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and shepherded Barrett’s nomination through just days before the presidential election.
“Boy, you all want power,” Graham said, turning to the Democrats on the committee. “God, I hope you never get it. ... I hate to say it because these have been my friends.”
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