Grassley: I Trust Trump To Nominate The ‘Right Type of People’ To SCOTUS

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, arrives for a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Senate Republicans, most vocally Majority Leader Mitch McConnell... Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, arrives for a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Senate Republicans, most vocally Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are facing a high-stakes political showdown with President Barack Obama sparked by the recent death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Republicans controlling the Senate — which must confirm any Obama appointee before the individual is seated on the court — say that the decision is too important to be determined by a lame-duck president. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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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.

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  1. Correction–The GRASSHOLE trusts Trump to nominate the EXTREMELY Right type of people to the Court like Ted Cruz…

  2. There you go, Iowa. Do you people need any more proof he should be thrown out of office?

  3. He must be talking about someone other than Donald Trump. No one could possibly see Donald Trump and come away with any confidence he would do anything right when it comes to governing (among other things).

  4. Maybe he can really lose it by asking Trump to pick someone now and holding hearings for that person.

  5. TPM:

    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. …

    … People who are OKD (Our Kind, Dear). You know, Conservative, Republican, White.

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