Jim Jordan on Moving Forward With Confirmation: ‘Following the Historic Norm’

US House Rep. and ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan appeared this morning on the Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the controversy over her vacancy.

Jordan told Bartiromo, “The President’s job is to nominate someone for the Supreme Court. It’s then the Senate’s job to advise and consent and go through the process.”

He continued by saying that Trump is also following “the historic norm” by moving forward with a nomination. He offered as an example that nine out of ten times, when the same party that controls the White House also controls the U.S. Senate, a Supreme Court nominee who is put forward in an election year gets confirmed.

In regards to what happened in 2016, he said that when the White House and Senate are controlled by opposite parties, the election year confirmation ratio for Supreme Court nominees slips to one in eight.

Later in the interview, Jordan said “I hope it happens as quickly as possible… Think about what we’ve seen the last six months. Democrat Governors, Democrat Mayors have said you can’t go to church, you can’t go to work, you can’t go to school, but you can protest, you can riot, you can loot.”

He likes the two women justices that are being floated as possible replacements and hoped that whoever it was that was confirmed, that there weren’t of the “John Roberts mold.”

Vice President Mike Pence, in an interview last month, said that “Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment to conservatives — whether it be the Obamacare decision, or whether it be a spate of recent decisions all the way through Calvary Chapel.”