Newt Gingrich: Biden gets to nominate, he does not get to approve SCOTUS nominee

Newt Gingrich, the previous Republican Speaker of the Home, joined “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday to debate the Supreme Court docket battle that can play out within the carefully divided Senate after Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement.

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NEWT GINGRICH: “Properly, I believe the necessary factor is to go straight to having actually good investigations and actually good hearings. You already know, [President Richard] Nixon nominated a number of individuals who failed. [President] Lyndon Johnson nominated individuals who failed. And so they failed as a result of, once they received into the investigations and so they received into the hearings, the nation concluded that they have been unhealthy…that they weren’t applicable to be on the Supreme Court docket. So, I begin with the concept the president will get nominate, he doesn’t get to approve. The Senate has an obligation to look rigorously—at whoever’s nominated—discover out what their views are, what their previous is, after which see what occurs. And we’ve had quite a few instances, over the past half-century, the place the nominee simply type of melted down…couldn’t take the warmth.”

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