Sen. Dick Durbin told Judge Neil Gorsuch that President Trump would give the federal appeals court judge all he could handle if he is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
“You’re going to have your hands full with this president,” the Illinois Democrat said Monday, the first of four days of confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee. “He’s going to keep you busy.”
Durbin vowed to probe Gorsuch’s record and thinking at length during Tuesday’s questioning of Gorsuch, spotlighting the issue of independence from Trump as one area of inquiry. Durbin said he would ask Gorsuch why White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus suggested on television that Gorsuch would share Trump’s “vision.”
The Illinois Democrat also said he thought Gorsuch’s high court nomination represented the latest part of a “Republican strategy” to “capture the judicial branch of government.”
