ACS President Statement on Supreme Court Nomination

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

January 31, 2017

CONTACT:
Paul Guequierre, pguequierre@acslaw.org

Washington, D.C. – Today President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court.

ACS President Caroline Fredrickson made the following statement:

“For nearly a year we have had a consensus nominee, one respected and held in high regard for his moderate judicial philosophy on both sides of the aisle, in Chief Judge Merrick Garland. But instead of doing what’s right for the country, the Senate majority has spent the better part of a year playing politics through unprecedented obstruction. President Trump has applied a series of litmus tests to this candidate, raising concerns about whether he will be able to fairly evaluate cases. Although the Constitution established an independent and co-equal federal judiciary, Republicans have politicized the Supreme Court, doing serious damage to our democracy.”

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