Hawley Launches Website On McCaskill’s Supreme Court Votes
Roll Call
Bridget Bowman
July 3, 2018
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Republican Senate hopeful Josh Hawley is launching a new digital campaign to highlight Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s previous positions on Supreme Court nominees, as the latest high court vacancy shakes up competitive Senate races across the country.
A new website by the Hawley campaign is highlighting McCaskill’s support for former President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees, with less than a week before President Donald Trump is expected to name a replacement for the retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. While Kennedy has often sided with the court’s conservative wing, he’s also been a pivotal swing vote on issues relating to abortion and same-sex marriage.
The website, shared first with Roll Call, outlines McCaskill record of supporting Obama’s nominees while opposing Trump’s first Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch. McCaskill said at the time that she opposed Gorsuch because of his “rigid ideology that always puts the little guy under the boot of corporations.”
[…]Hawley previously clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and in a statement he called the high court “the defining issue of our time.” He called on McCaskill to debate him over the court’s role.
“My top criteria for the next nominee includes enforcing the Constitution the way the people wrote it, not according to a judge’s personal preferences, and a willingness to stand up to political pressure,” Hawley said.
