Josh Hawley has responded after Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) announced she'll vote against Brett Kavanaugh in his nomination for the Supreme Court.
Noting that McCaskill also opposed Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, Hawley added: “Nobody is surprised. Claire McCaskill is now 0 for 6 on Supreme Court nominees since she started running for the Senate 12 long years ago.”
“She has sided with Chuck Schumer every single time—for liberals and against Missouri,” he said.
President Donald Trump won Missouri in the 2016 presidential election and McCaskill faces a tough challenge in November in her bid for re-election from Hawley, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Echoing a number of commentators, Jessie Jane Duff, a retired U.S. Marine and now a senior fellow for the London Center for Policy Research, said that McCaskill won’t get re-elected if she votes against Kavanaugh.
McCaskill Announces Opposition
McCaskill said in a statement on Wednesday, Sept. 19 that her decision rested on Kavanaugh’s thinking on “several key issues,” principally so-called dark money.“He has revealed his bias against limits on campaign donations which places him completely out of the mainstream of this nation,” she said.
“He wrote, ‘And I have heard very few people say that limits on contributions to candidates are unconstitutional although I for one tend to think those limits have some constitutional problems.' Judge Kavanaugh will give free rein to anonymous donors and foreign governments through their citizens to spend money to interfere and influence our elections with so-called ‘issue ads.’”
McCaskill is the first of six undecided Senate Democrats to announce a decision.
Kavanaugh could still be confirmed even if all Democrats oppose him and he receives support from 50 of the 51 Senate Republicans.
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