Senator Bob Casey plans to vote ‘no’ on Gorsuch SCOTUS nomination
FILE PHOTO: Sen. Bob Casey, D-Penn., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July 25, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
(Washington D.C.) — Pennsylvania’s senior U.S. senator has decided he will not back Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Democrat Bob Casey says he will vote “no” on President Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s highest court.
He’s outlined his position in a statement — calling Gorsuch’s judicial philosophy “rigid and restrictive.”
“It is a judicial philosophy that employs the narrowest possible reading of federal law and exercises extreme skepticism, even hostility, toward executive branch agencies. Judge Gorsuch opinions often reflect a commitment to satisfy his judicial philosophy more than to grapple with the complex circumstances faced by ordinary Americans,” he says. Disproportionately, powerful interests are the beneficiaries while workers, consumers and those with disabilities are the losers of this approach.”
Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey has praised Gorsuch in the past.
Today is the fourth and — what is scheduled to be — final day of the confirmation hearing for the president’s nominee.
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