Scalise Discusses President Trump's Potential Supreme Court Nominee
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends to discuss President Trump's potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Scalise emphasized that Supreme Court Justices are nominated to strictly interpret the Constitution as it was written — and that's what President Trump's nominees have done.
Scalise also highlighted the stark contrast on the issues between President Trump and Joe Biden. President Trump continues to deliver historic achievements for American families, accomplishing feats never thought possible during the Obama/Biden administration.
On President Trump's potential Supreme Court nominee:
"Look, I've been a big fan of Amy Coney Barrett for a long time. She actually grew up about five minutes from where I am here [in New Orleans]. Her family still lives in my district, just a wonderful family and somebody who's had an impeccable record on the bench. And ultimately, that's really what it's about, you know, you want to pick somebody who's going to actually interpret the Constitution. Not somebody who is going to go there to try to write their own version of the Constitution. And that's really, I think, been the biggest divide and what President Trump has done such a great job of doing in his first two picks, is sticking with people that actually will interpret the Constitution as it was written. That's what judges are supposed to do. Unfortunately, we don't always get that."
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"If the pick by the President today is Amy, she needs to know what's coming at her. I think she saw that in our first round when she was appointed to the federal bench a few years ago. It was actually disgraceful that they attacked her for her Catholic faith. That's disgusting, it shouldn't happen, and if they try to go down that road again it'll be at their own peril. In the end, I think people are tired of this politics of personal destruction where they find somebody that they just don't agree with philosophically, so they try to destroy their character, they try to make up things about their character as we saw with Justice Kavanaugh. If they try to do that again, it'll backfire on them big time. I would recommend that they focus on what this is supposed to be about, and that is what are the qualifications to be a judge. Amy's got her own record, and she's got an impeccable record. And so, if they stick to that I think this is where it should go but if not, she's tough. She's a tough person and again, whoever the President picks, this President's done a better job than anybody, any President I've ever studied on Supreme Court picks and he put that list out there. By the way, notice Joe Biden never even dares put out a list. He's afraid of the public seeing the kind of people he would put on the Court, and I think that's an important issue as well as we look towards this debate coming up Tuesday night."
On the stark contrast between President Trump's leadership and the failed tenure of the Obama/Biden administration:
"Look, they've been trying to hide Joe Biden in the basement for this entire campaign and it's not working. I mean, you see Donald Trump out there with tremendous energy, tremendous enthusiasm. People love what he stands for, who he fights for. Donald Trump fights for those forgotten men and women that Joe Biden literally left behind when he was in the White House last time as Vice President. You know, we saw an evaporation of our middle-class during Joe Biden. We saw all of our friends around the world felt abandoned by the United States. The bad guys got worse – China, Russia, Iran got a nuclear weapon. Donald Trump's actually bringing peace in the Middle East. He brought countries together. He's standing up to Russia. He's standing up to China right now when [Democrats] won't even stand up to China."
On President Trump's historic achievements:
"I've never seen anything like it. I think people of America like they want to need a President who's going to be able to show up to work for them every single day. The thing you could say about Donald Trump, I mean clearly, he's got a strong record of building a great economy. He's going to build a great economy again. He's confronting COVID. We're literally on the brink with four different major internationally respected drug companies in the final stage of FDA testing for a vaccine because of President Trump's Operation Warp Speed leadership. But the one thing I see the most when I'm around this President is his unbelievable energy. He just doesn't stop: he goes every single day. I don't know if he sleeps. He just works all the time and he fights for those hard-working families of this country. And with Joe Biden, the contrast has never been sharper on both style, attitude, energy and then of course ultimately, on philosophy.
"Freedom versus government-controlled socialism. All of that's on display and will be on display at this debate. And we need to have all three debates. I think we will because if Joe Biden tries to duck any of them, the American people won't put up with that. But look, he's been debating for 47 years, this is part of what Joe Biden's done. He'll go, I'm sure go out there and throw every accusation under the sun at President Trump, but President Trump is as good as it gets at going out there, fighting for the things he believes and laying out his vision. He's got a great vision for the future. He's done great things for this country."