2/1/2017

NEIL GORSUCH/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT: [Reporter: “As you pointed out last night, Judge Gorsuch was confirmed on a unanimous voice vote in 2006. Now, a number of Democrats say they are going to oppose him. What would you say to those Democrats? And would you encourage Senator McConnell to invoke the nuclear option if he feels he can’t get 60 votes?”]

“And, yes, if we end up with the same gridlock that they’ve had in Washington for the last — longer than eight years, in all fairness to President Obama, a lot longer than eight years — but if we end up with that gridlock, I would say, if you can, Mitch, go nuclear. Because that would be a absolute shame if a man of this quality was caught up in the web. So I would say it’s up to Mitch, but I would say go for it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with SCOTUS Groups,” whitehouse.gov, Feb. 1, 2017