White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer laid out some stats today showing Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch fielded 1,200 questions during his hearing process and bent over backwards to be open about his qualifications.
Senate Democrats are stalling the confirmation, despite what Spicer called an “unprecedented” amount of transparency.
2x as many Qs answered than Kagan & Sotomayor (almost 1,200!) & Democrats are still trying to stop @GorsuchFacts https://t.co/05W5wEG48A
— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) March 30, 2017
“Since his nomination, Judge Gorsuch met with nearly 80 senators,” Spicer said.
According to Spicer, Gorsuch provided:
- 70 pages about his personal records in response to 299 questions by Democrats on the committee — “the most in recent history.”
- Over 75,000 pages of documents including speeches, case briefs, opinions and written work “going as far back as college.”
- Over 180,000 pages of emails and paper records related to Gorsuch’s time at the Department of Justice.
- Three rounds of nearly 20 hours of public testimony before the committee.
Spicer said the DOJ provided access to documents that would otherwise be privileged in an “historically unprecedented move in a spirit of cooperation with Senate Democrats.”
Spicer said during his hearings, Gorsuch was asked nearly 1,200 questions, “almost twice as many as Justices Sotomayor, Kagan or Ginsburg,” referring to three liberal justices preferred by Democrats.
“Unfortunately it looks more and more that Senate Democrats would rather do all that they did in reading and questioning for nothing more than political theater,” he said.
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