President Joe Biden met with Senate Judiciary Committee leaders on Tuesday as Democrats worked to gain significant GOP support for his Supreme Court nominee — a steep challenge in a Senate that has been sharply and bitterly divided over the past three confirmations.
Speaking to reporters as the meeting began, Biden said Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin and the top Republican on the panel, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, are “two good friends” and noted that the three of them had worked on many Supreme Court nominations together in their decades on the panel.
