Coons: I’ll Join Schumer in Opposing an Extreme Trump SCOTUS Pick

RUSH EXCERPT:

COONS: "Well, Wolf, let’s be clear about how we got here. Justice Scalia passed away roughly a little more than a year ago. He passed away in early 2016. And that vacant seat was held vacant without a hearing, without a vote by the Republican majority for virtually an entire year, an unprecedented step. I think that every one of President Trump’s nominees deserve a hearing. And if we hear that his nominee for the Supreme Court is a consensus candidate, someone in the mainstream of American jurisprudence, then I could vote for him. But I will join senator Schumer in voting against someone who is an extreme candidate, someone who is outside the mainstream of American legal thinking and the way we can get to that conclusion is through a full and fair hearing, exactly the sort of hearing that judge Merrick Garland never received."