This Endorsement Should End All Hysteria About Gorsuch Nomination

The American Bar Association, a group whose endorsement the left has historically considered the “gold standard,” has given President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, their highest rating.

The ABA said that Gorsuch was “well qualified” to become the next Supreme Court Justice.

The Blaze reported:

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The ABA’s standing committee on the federal judiciary reached the decision unanimously, according to Chairwoman Nancy Scott Degan, who informed Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee’s ranking member, in a letter Thursday.

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Grassley offered a glowing statement in response to the group’s announcement:

“The ABA’s ringing endorsement is no surprise given Judge Gorsuch’s sterling credentials and his distinguished decade-long record on the Tenth Circuit. Former Chairman [Patrick] Leahy and Minority Leader [Chuck] Schumer have called the ABA’s assessment the “gold standard” in evaluating federal judicial nominations. In light of Judge Gorsuch’s impeccable record, it’s hard to imagine any other result from the ABA’s consideration.”

Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Institute’s Supreme Court Review, discussed the rating with the Blaze.

“This rating certainly doesn’t hurt,” Shapiro said. “The ABA is, by the right, a left-wing organization. By the left, it’s seen as the gold standard for judicial nominees, so this takes an arrow out of the quiver of whatever opposition to Gorsuch the Democrats are planning.”

“Indeed,” he said, “given that some of the ratings — some of the lower-than-expected ratings of nominees in the past — have been related to ideology, I think it will also make it harder for Democrats to argue that Gorsuch is some sort of radical.”

This week, 150 of Gorsuch’s former classmates at Columbia sent a letter to Congress this week vouching for the Supreme Court nominee, who they described as a “a serious and brilliant student who earned deep respect from teachers and students alike.”

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Shapiro pointed this out and added: “Who judges what is out of the mainstream? Presumably, it’s people who are learned in the law, that know Gorsuch’s work best, that know what Supreme Court practice is, and I think those would be very effective tools.”

The Blaze reported:

While Schumer has signaled there will be a long fight on Capitol Hill over Gorsuch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) guaranteed this week that Gorsuch will be confirmed by the April recess.

We’ll see what happens, but it’s looking like it’s going to be even harder for the Democrats to argue against Gorsuch’s confirmation — although facts and logic don’t tend to hamper the left in their quest to push their radical agenda.