Afternoon round-up: Day four of Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing
on Mar 23, 2017 at 6:01 pm
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee conducted the fourth and final day of its hearing on Gorsuch nomination, which featured testimony of witnesses for and against the nomination. Coverage of the hearing comes from Matt Flegenheimer and others in The New York Times, Seung Min Kim and Josh Gerstein at Politico, Rebecca Wilhelm at Bloomberg BNA, who focuses on Gorsuch’s views on Chevron deference, Benjamin Wermund at Politico, and Lisa Soronen at the National Conference of State Legislatures blog, who writes about what Gorsuch had to say about issues affecting state and local governments, Commentary comes from Andrew Cohen in Esquire, Ilya Shapiro in the Washington Examiner, Tara Helfman in Commentary, Lori Ringhand and Paul Collins at The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, who argue that all justices, including Gorsuch, should be limited to 18-year terms,
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced today that he will oppose Gorsuch’s nomination and will urge his Democratic colleagues to do the same, opening the door to a filibuster. Amy Howe reports on Schumer’s statement for this blog. Additional coverage comes from Kevin Freking and Mark Sherman at the Associated Press, Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung at Reuters, Ariane de Vogue at CNN, Charlie Savage, Matt Flegenheimer and Adam Liptak in The New York Times, Richard Wolf at USA Today, Elana Schor at Politico, and Ed Keefe, Robert Barnes and Ann Marimow in The Washington Post. Commentary on the prospect of a filibuster comes from James Downie in The Washington Post.
