Merrick Garland is not worth Senate hearings to be considered for the U.S. Supreme Court and is a substandard choice by President Barack Obama to replace the late Antonin Scalia, former House majority leader Tom DeLay tells
Newsmax TV.
"He couldn't lick Scalia's boots and I hope that's what people, especially in the Senate, will reveal," DeLay said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."
The guy's not a constitutionalist. I know all the lawyers in America are rallying around him because they're part of that sorority or fraternity, but he's not a constitutionalist. He's nowhere near."
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On Wednesday, the president tapped Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, defying the Senate's vow that the nomination is futile because it won't vote on him, or even meet with him. Instead, the Senate wants to wait until a new president is in office, hopefully a Republican.
"[Garland] is a guy that at the best you can call him a moderate…. We have a lawless Supreme Court right now. We have a lawless president," said DeLay, now a Washington Times radio host.
"It's laughable that a lawless president is making a nomination and telling us what's in the Constitution. This guy is not worth even having a hearing. He's not a constitutionalist."
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