Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado said that Democrats were wrong to filibuster the nomination of Neil Gorsuch and he blames the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the dems botched battle to keep him off the court.
This will probably not sit well with his fellow Democrats in the Senate and possibly the House, too. Bennet made the case that since Gorsuch was replacing Scalia, it didn’t change the balance of power on the court. Kavanaugh was another matter because he was replacing Justice Kennedy, who was a swing vote.
This might be signaling that he is planning to run as a moderate.
Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado said Sunday that Democrats were wrong to filibuster Justice Neil Gorsuch’s nomination for the Supreme Court, after a liberal advocacy group gave Bennet a failing grade on judicial confirmation votes.
Bennet, a presidential candidate, opposed the ultimately unsuccessful effort to filibuster Gorsuch’s nomination in 2017, saying Democrats should save that gambit for a future retirement where the ideological balance of the high court is actually at stake — Gorsuch succeeded late Justice Antonin Scalia, which did not change the balance of power on the nation’s highest judicial tribunal.
“We didn’t have the discipline to play it strategically — we were non-strategic,” Bennet said on “Meet the Press.” “And as a result, when [Justice Brett] Kavanaugh got there, Democrats could do nothing except pretend to our base that we were fighting.”
“Those who conceived of the strategy, continue to advocate it, and continue to attack other Democrats that disagree with them, I think they deserve an F,” Bennet added.