Chuck Schumer: “next week the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its hearing on President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge…”

“next week the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its hearing on President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch. As I have said before, we in the Senate have a special responsibility to judge whether this nominee, Judge Gorsuch, will tip the scales on the Court in favor of Big Business and powerful special interests over average Americans. The Court has steadily been moving in that direction under Justice Roberts. My colleague Sheldon Whitehouse and the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Feinstein, have documented in 5-to-4 cases that the Court, over the last decade, has almost always tilted in favor of the powerful and against those who are average Americans. In fact, the Court under Justice Roberts has been judged the most pro-corporate Court since World War II. So this country can ill afford another Justice who will side with the powerful. Judge Gorsuch may act like a studied, neutral judge, but his record suggests he actually has a rightwing, pro-corporate, special interest agenda. In today's New York Times, this morning we learned that Judge Gorsuch's career has been nurtured by a far-right billionaire and corporate titan, Philip Anschutz, who has gone out of his way to fund hard-right judicial causes, including the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. President Trump outsourced his choice of a Supreme Court nominee to these organizations, and they recommended Judge Gorsuch. Neil Gorsuch represented Mr.…”