{"id":135591,"date":"2022-02-01T19:29:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=135591"},"modified":"2022-02-01T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:29:18","slug":"president-biden-in-meeting-with-senate-judiciary-committee-chair-dick-durbin-and-ranking-member-chuck-grassley-on-the-forthcoming-supreme-court-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=135591","title":{"rendered":"President Biden in Meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley on the Forthcoming Supreme Court Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Look, I invited \u2014 we\u2019re different parties but two good friends down here.  We\u2019ve done an awful lot of Supreme Court justices together, Senator Grassley and I, as well as Senator Durbin.  And we\u2019ve worked together on a lot of court nominations overall but particularly Supreme Court nominees.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fr0IFDxnjc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And selecting a justice is one of the President\u2019s most serious responsibilities.  And as I always said \u2014 and I went back and looked at a lot of the opening statements I made \u2014 apparently, Dick, I\u2019ve presided over more Supreme Court justices than anybody around that\u2019s still in Congress or associated with the government, which is \u2014 it kind of means we must be beyond 60, Chuck.  I\u2019m not sure what it is, but we\u2019re a little older.  But \u2014<\/p>\n<p> SENATOR GRASSLEY:  For me, it\u2019d be 15 or 16.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  (Laughs.)  Yeah, well, and I started way back early on in the early \u201870s. <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, what \u2014 what we\u2019re going to do, as I\u2019ve said before \u2014 and I went back and looked at some of the opening statements that I made for justices over the years that, you know, it\u2019s \u2014 the Constitution says \u201cadvise and consent\u201d \u2014 \u201cadvice and consent.\u201d  And I\u2019m serious when I say it: that I want the advice of the Senate as well as the consent, if we can arrive on who the nominee should be.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, it\u2019s \u2014 there\u2019s always a renewed national debate every time we nominate \u2014 any President nominates a justice, because the Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights, et cetera.  And it\u2019s always an issue.  And there\u2019s several schools of thought in terms of judicial philosophy.  And we\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n<p>But the fact is that I\u2019m looking for someone who I can \u2014 this is not a static issue; it flows back and forth.  What I\u2019m looking for is a candidate with character; with the qualities of a judge, in terms of being courteous to the folks before them and treating people with respect; as well as a judicial philosophy that is more of one that suggests that there are unenumerated rights in the Constitution, and all the amendments mean something, including the Ninth Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>And \u2014 but I intend to take this decision \u2014 to make this decision and get it to my colleagues by \u2014 by the end of the month.  That\u2019s my hope.<\/p>\n<p>And \u2014 and I\u2019m looking forward to their advice in how to proceed and how the hearings will be conducted and the like.<\/p>\n<p> So, thank you very much.  We\u2019re going to get a chance to talk, and I want to hear from them today.<\/p>\n<p> Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Look, I invited \u2014 we\u2019re different parties but two good friends down here. We\u2019ve done an awful lot of Supreme Court justices together, Senator Grassley and I, as well as Senator Durbin. And we\u2019ve worked together on a lot of court nominations overall but particularly Supreme Court nominees. 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