Durbin: McConnell 'totally inconsistent' on Supreme Court hearings

Just one day ahead of the announcement of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, the head of a major pro-life organization demanded an assurance that the pick would uphold Roe v. Wade.

Justice Kennedy, 81, recently announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump finally nominated judge Neil Gorsuch.

NBC, which only has American Ninja Warrior's Minneapolis qualifiers booked for this Monday, has yet to announce any tweaks to its line-up, while Fox as has been the case this summer has a disposable 9-1-1 rerun airing at 9 pm. A day later, Trump interviewed three other individuals.

Judge Amul Thapar, of the US Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit, was originally among those President Trump would be considering for Kennedy's position.

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At the same time, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has quietly been lobbying the president against choosing Amy Coney Barrett, an appeals court judge and a Catholic mother of seven, according to The New York Times. Justice Anthony Kennedy let the Trump White House know shortly after the official end of the 2017 term that he's out by the end of July. "I've never seen a president of the United States in effect make himself a puppet of outside groups and choose from a group of right-wing fringe ideologues that are prepared on this list".

"I think of the four people, I have it down to three or two". Honestly, I could pick any of the 25 and they would be terrific.

"Beyond the procedure, beyond the gamesmanship, it is a life-and-death important decision to be made by this court on so many issues", Durbin said.

A constitutional lawyer who met his wife while clerking for Chief Justice John Roberts, Hawley is in his element when he declares that McCaskill has "been wrong on every single court nominee since she has been running for the Senate or in the Senate".