Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid warned it would be a “mistake” for Hillary Clinton to picked someone other than Merrick Garland to serve on the Supreme Court if she is elected president.
“I would hope that Secretary Clinton would not bat an eye and just move forward with this good man,” Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday.
Reid has been hammering Republicans for refusing to take up Garland’s nomination. He staged a press conference Wednesday that included a few Iowans who called on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to hold a hearing on Garland’s nomination.
Reid said Garland “is no flaming liberal,” and is “a middle-of-the-road guy in his personal life and his opinions.”
Some political observers have questioned whether liberals will try to force Clinton to select a Supreme Court nominee to the left of Garland.
But Reid warned, “It would be a mistake to nominate anybody else.”
“The American people like this guy, as they should,” he said.
