On Tuesday, Senate Republicans voted against her approval along with West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin.
He said former law clerks for conservative Supreme Court justices, including Antonin Scalia and Brett Kavanaugh, signed letters supporting her nomination, as did, whom she sat next to when both worked for the Jones Day law firm. “These are significant because the lion’s share of all federal cases never make it to the Supreme Court, but are instead resolved at the circuit court level,” Schumer said.
“It doesn’t matter if we come from different political backgrounds,” she told Durbin. “It doesn’t matter if we’re on the other side of a case from one another. Sometimes our clients can be fighting quite vigorously against one another, but we’re always very professional, we always have respect for one another and we’re always supporting one another, as we briefed and argued cases in some of the highest courts in our state.
She told other members of the committee that she felt confident she’d be able to transition to being a judge from her current role as an attorney.