The Judicial Crisis Network unveiled a new ad on Friday showing an Obama administration Justice Department official saying, “I’m 100 percent comfortable with Judge Gorsuch becoming our next Supreme Court justice.”
Jane Nitze, who worked for the Justice Department and clerked for left-leaning Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, boosted President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, who Nitze clerked for in 2008 and 2009.
“I don’t think folks on the Left should be concerned about Judge Gorsuch becoming a Supreme Court justice,” Nitze says in the ad. “He is extraordinarily fair-minded. He will approach each case the same regardless of the issue or the parties before him. And he will have a great deal of respect for folks on all sides of the ideological spectrum.”
The ad will run on television in Colorado and Washington, D.C., and three predominantly red states where Democratic senators are up for re-election in 2018: Indiana, Missouri, and North Dakota. The ad is part of the first phase of a $10 million campaign pushing for Gorsuch’s confirmation to the high court.
