Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he has the utmost confidence that Donald Trump would nominate the “right type of people” to the Supreme Court if he were elected president.
“Based upon the type of people he’d be looking for, I think I would expect the right type of people to be nominated by him to the Supreme Court,” Grassley told the Des Moines Register.
Grassley’s comments came after an earlier interview with an Iowa radio station where Grassley admitted that having Trump ultimately select the successor to the late Antonin Scalia was a “gamble.”
As the chairman of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, Grassley has been a leader in holding the line against Obama nominee Merrick Garland. Grassley has argued that Obama should not get his selected nominee because there is an election in November.
Some conservatives who opposed Trump, however, have begun making calls for the Senate to move forward now out of fear that Trump could be defeated in November and Hillary Clinton could nominate a more liberal justice for the court.
