Discussion: WATCH: Hatch, Grassley Said Merrick Garland Was Qualified In 1997

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When Merrick Garland was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1997, both Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said in speeches on the Senate floor that Garland was a qualified nominee.

But that was nineteen years ago, before Garland let himself be nominated by an uppity black t-bone eating young buck president elected by those people - you know, Americans.

“We have nothing against this nominee, Mr. Garland,” Grassley said in 1997. “He seems to be well-qualified and would probably make a good judge in some other court where the seat needs to be filled.”

You mean like the seat that needs to be filled on the Supreme Court, Sen. Grassley?