Sen. Cruz: ‘Judge Gorsuch Should be Confirmed to the Supreme Court and He Will be Confirmed to the Supreme Court’
Urges Bipartisan Support for Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Nomination
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined his colleagues in the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Sen. Cruz urged his Democratic colleagues who were willing to confirm Judge Gorsuch ten years ago to do so again.
Video of the Senator’s remarks may be viewed here. Video of the press conference in its entirety may be viewed here.
“Judge Gorsuch should be confirmed to the Supreme Court and he will be confirmed to the Supreme Court,” Sen. Cruz said. “On any objective measure Judge Gorsuch is impeccably well qualified for the court. Gorsuch has spent a lifetime in the law building a record demonstrating that he will make an exemplary justice. A decade ago when he was nominated to the Federal Court of Appeals, the Senate confirmed him by voice vote – not a single senator spoke out against him. If they supported his being on the Court of Appeals a decade ago, what’s changed? The universal assessment of Judge Gorsuch’s tenure as a judge is that he is a judge who follows the law without partiality to any litigant and without partiality to any policy outcome. That is what we want and deserve in judges.”
Sen. Cruz has helped lead efforts to usher Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation through the Senate. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he argued in favor of Judge Gorsuch several times throughout the hearing process, exchanges which may be viewed here, here, and here.
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