Congressman Steve Scalise applauds Amy Coney Barrett as the next US Supreme Court Justice.
The Republican Whip from Louisiana says Barrett is from his home district.
“Look, I’ve been a big fan of Amy Coney Barrett for a long time. She actually grew up about five minutes from where I am here," he told Fox News during an interview from New Orleans. "Her family still lives in my district, just a wonderful family and somebody who's had an impeccable record on the bench. And ultimately, that's really what it's about, you know, you want to pick somebody who's going to actually interpret the Constitution. Not somebody who is going to go there to try to write their own version of the Constitution. And that's really, I think, been the biggest divide and what President Trump has done such a great job of doing in his first two picks, is sticking with people that actually will interpret the Constitution as it was written. That's what judges are supposed to do. Unfortunately, we don't always get that.”
Scalise discussed President Trump's potential nominee and emphasized that Supreme Court Justices are nominated to strictly interpret the Constitution as it was written.
He says that's what President Trump's nominees have done.
He also predicted that the hearings could get ugly.
“If the pick by the President today is Amy, she needs to know what's coming at her. I think she saw that in our first round when she was appointed to the federal bench a few years ago. It was actually disgraceful that they attacked her for her Catholic faith. That's disgusting, it shouldn't happen, and if they try to go down that road again it'll be at their own peril. In the end, I think people are tired of this politics of personal destruction where they find somebody that they just don't agree with philosophically, so they try to destroy their character, they try to make up things about their character as we saw with Justice Kavanaugh. If they try to do that again, it'll backfire on them big time. I would recommend that they focus on what this is supposed to be about, and that is what are the qualifications to be a judge. Amy's got her own record, and she's got an impeccable record. And so, if they stick to that I think this is where it should go but if not, she's tough. She’s a tough person and again, whoever the President picks, this President's done a better job than anybody, any President I’ve ever studied on Supreme Court picks and he put that list out there. By the way, notice Joe Biden never even dares put out a list. He's afraid of the public seeing the kind of people he would put on the Court, and I think that's an important issue as well as we look towards this debate coming up Tuesday night.”
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