Rounds Issues Statement on SCOTUS Nomination Vote
Audio statement attached
WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) issued the following statement announcing his intent to oppose the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States:
“While I acknowledge and appreciate the historic nature of this nomination, for there has never been an African American woman nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Senate’s responsibility to provide ‘advice and consent’ on executive nominations requires full scrutiny of the nominee’s judicial record and philosophy. As part of my deliberation on this nominee, I reviewed her record of judicial decisions and met cordially with Judge Jackson in my office. I believe her judicial approach would promote legislating from the bench, rather than applying the law as written. Based on her written decisions and my personal conversations with her, I will not support her nomination.”
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How is she not qualified? Imagining that you may not like her position on future issues does not mean she is not qualified. And yes, I said the same about all three of Trump’s appointees. We as a country are doing ourselves a grave disservice by replacing “qualified” with “whom I’d prefer.” I was hoping for much more, Senator Rounds.
nobody is saying she is not qualified.
They are saying her judicial approach is to legislate from the bench.
That indicates a misunderstanding of what the judicial branch is supposed to do. If she wants to change laws, she needs to change careers and become a legislator.