‘The great thing about somebody like Judge Gorsuch is the people that admire him also includes the people who differ from him politically but have seen him in action, people like the former solicitor general under President Obama.’
‘[Leader Schumer] thought Judge Gorsuch was good enough for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. I would challenge him to identify a reason why he’s not well-suited for the United States Supreme Court, unless it’s based on some political calculation.’
‘I hope our colleagues across the aisle, after this nominee’s voted out of the Judiciary Committee, will allow us to have an up-or-down vote on this nomination.’
WASHINGTON – Today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) called on his colleagues to allow an up-or-down vote on President Trump’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video of his remarks can be found here.
“My view is, if you can’t vote for somebody like Judge Gorsuch, there is probably nobody that would be nominated by this President that you would vote to confirm.”
“We know of his intellect. We know of his sterling qualifications and his extensive experience. I particularly appreciated his testimony today about access to justice and his concern that people of modest means, low-income, the so-called little guy that our friends across the aisle keep talking about, that the little guy in America is essentially denied access to our courts because it costs so much, and it takes too long.”
“The great thing about somebody like Judge Gorsuch is the people that admire him also includes the people who differ from him politically but have seen him in action, people like the former solicitor general under President Obama.”
“That’s why he was previously confirmed by this United States Senate ten years ago when he was nominated to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. He was confirmed by voice vote.”
“[Leader Schumer] thought Judge Gorsuch was good enough for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. I would challenge him to identify a reason why he’s not well-suited for the United States Supreme Court, unless it’s based on some political calculation.”
“Judge Gorsuch is no radical. He follows the law wherever it leads.”
“He’s noted that about 97 percent of the thousands of cases he has decided have been unanimously.”
“And he sided with the majority 99 percent of the time. This is nobody out of the mainstream.”
“I hope our colleagues across the aisle, after this nominee’s voted out of the Judiciary Committee, will allow us to have an up-or-down vote on this nomination.”
Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, is a member of the Senate Finance, Intelligence, and Judiciary Committees.