Sen. Mike Lee on Potentially Being Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee: ‘I Certainly Would Not Say No’
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) appeared on Fox News late Wednesday night and weighed in on the announced retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and the possibility of he himself filling the vacant seat.
Lee was one of 25 potential candidates on President Donald Trump‘s not-so-short shortlist last year before he chose Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia‘s seat. The Utah Senator also earned the glowing endorsements from his colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who insisted that Lee would be “faithful to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” as well as conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck, who gave Lee a shoutout on Twitter.
Let me be the first to say Justice @SenMikeLee. #scotus
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) June 27, 2018
“Look, I’m honored to even be considered for that,” Lee said. “This, of course, is the president’s choice. This is going to be a decision that’s up to him and not up to me. I’m honored to be considered.”
“Would you say yes?” Shannon Bream asked.
“I certainly would not say no if I’m offered that job,” Lee responded.
Bream then mentioned that Lee’s brother, Judge Thomas Rex Lee, is also on Trump’s shortlist.
“My brother is brilliant,” Lee boasted. “He’s a member of the Utah Supreme Court. He served in that position for the last seven years. He’s a textualist originalist and a brilliant scholar.”
He then took a moment to criticize his Democratic colleagues in the Senate for flat-out dismissing all of Trump’s nominees and blamed their passing of the nuclear option in 2013 for the dysfunction today.
Watch the clip above, via Fox News.
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