Klobuchar: No I Can’t Support Any of Trump’s SCOTUS Nominees

‘A number of them are writing concurrences where they go out of their way to try to make new law’

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RADDATZ: Senator, we know you don’t really support President Trump. You know, you differ with him on major issues. But when you look at that list of 25, is there anyone on that you would support?

KLOBUCHAR: The ones I’ve seen, that have emerged to the top of the list, no. And a number of them I have voted on already because I’ve already seen that when you look back at their record, a number of them are writing concurrences where they go out of their way to try to make new law, just as you saw with what Justice Gorsuch did recently about the reasonable expectation of privacy in a dissent that he wrote or when he joined with Clarence Thomas on a issue about racial redistricting and racial voting rights.

You see this time and time again with some of these nominees and I think what you want —

RADDATZ: So do you think you can get a real stance (ph) —

KLOBUCHAR: — is someone who’s not an ideologue.

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