Dems delay Gorsuch vote as both sides on gun argument rally troops

By Chris Eger

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch during the third day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 22. (Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
The Senate Judiciary Committee met Monday to consider Gorsuch’s nomination but Democrats, spearheaded by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, asked for a delay on his vote until next Monday.
Gorsuch, following a week of hearings, was scheduled for debate by the committee to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court along with Rod Rosenstein to be the Deputy Attorney General and Rachel Brand to be the Associate Attorney General, which now won’t take place until at least April 3.
Feinstein addressed the short meeting of the committee and railed against Senate inaction last session on Judge Merrick Garland — President Obama’s nomination to fill the seat vacated by the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. The California Democrat pointed out that 14 justices were nominated and confirmed to the high court in election years. Feinstein then turned to the topic of “dark money” in the confirmation process, contending $7 million was spent to “sully Judge Garland and that $10 million in dark money was spent to promote Neil Gorsuch.”
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Source: Guns.com