Louisiana’s Republican Congressional delegation is thrilled with President Trump’s decision to nominate Metairie native Amy Coney Barrett for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Senator Bill Cassidy says Barrett is incredibly well-qualified and she walks the talk and D.C. Democrats fear that.
“She’s smart, she writes well, she relates to the average American experience, so for all of those reasons in a political year, I think the left is going to be beside themselves,” said Cassidy.
Cassidy’s main opponent in the US Senate race, Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, has said the Senate should not vote on a justice nominee until next year. But Cassidy says the Senate should move forward since the American people elected a Republican President and the Senate has a Republican majority.
“All I know is whoever is brought before the U.S. Senate, I’m required to vote yes or no and I’ll stay in my lane and do that which is what I’m supposed to do,” said Cassidy.
Benton Congressman Mike Johnson met Barrett at a student leadership event in 1988 when they were high school. Johnson says Judge Barrett is a female version of Justice Antonin Scalia, who served on the court for 30 years until his death in 2016.
“What we mean by that she’s a natural inheritor of his great legacy on the court, she’s an originalist, she studied the constitution at the feet of the master of Scalia and she’s cut out of the same mold,” said Johnson.
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