Key Senate Republicans keep signaling their approach to the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation process will be one of “respect” rather than obstruction, to contrast with how they felt Democrats treated former President Donald Trump’s high court appointees.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee who met with President Joe Biden this week, said Thursday that Republicans will scrutinize the qualifications of the pick but “we will treat the nominee with dignity, fairness and respect while we do so.”
Grassley then went off of his scripted remarks to add that Republican senators need to make it known if they want to meet with the nominee, so that they can’t be accused of using that part of the process to be “deliberately delaying consideration of the nominee.”
