You quoted Sen. Cory Gardner (
If that quote is accurate, I respectfully suggest that the senator’s fact-checker missed what happened when President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
I may not know all the details of what happened on inside the Senate, but I recall that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican majority refused to conduct hearings or allow a vote on Garland’s nomination.
Mike Pompeo is now the secretary of state, so the decision of whether to give deference to a presidential nomination was not the issue.
Nonetheless, even though I believe Sen. Gardner’s statement was not accurate, I hope that the next time a president of an opposition party refers a nomination to the Senate for its “advice and consent” that the senator will encourage his colleagues to afford the nominee a hearing and a vote.
Barry Creany
Durango
