Another Senate Democrat Announces He Will Oppose Gorsuch
Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island announced that he will vote against the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Reed said in a statement that he is voting against Gorsuch because he “has a propensity for ruling against workers in labor and employment disputes.”
In a statement released Friday, Reed said he is worried about Gorsuch’s “pro-corporate tendencies” that hurt workers and consumers.
“If Judge Gorsuch is confirmed to the Supreme Court, I worry he would try to circumscribe voting rights and consumer protections and impose new constraints on civil liberties and women’s health care and roll back clean air laws,” said Reed.
“Equal Justice Under Law is engraved on the front of the Supreme Court. But Judge Gorsuch seems to favor the expansion of corporate power over individual rights,” Reed continued.
Reed also said of Gorsuch that “His interpretation of the Constitution would further rig the system to expand corporate power at the expense of people.”
Senator Jack Reed is the 13th Democrat to announce they will be voting no on Donald Trump’s pick. Earlier in the week Senator Chuck Schumer announced that Democrats would filibuster Neil Gorsuch after Republicans stole the seat by refusing to give Merrick Garland a hearing or a vote.
“If this nominee cannot earn 60 votes, a bar met by each of President Obama’s nominees and George Bush’s last two nominees, the answer isn’t to change the rules. It’s to change the nominee,” Schumer said.
