March 20, 2017
It's the first day of spring, and Senate confirmation hearings begin at 11 a.m. in Washington for Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court. Our previews include Rachel del Guidice's report on four ways it could go; Kelsey Harkness' video on a former clerk's assessment of the appeals judge; and Elizabeth Slattery's analysis on what's different this time. Plus: Robert Rector on a better idea than Medicaid work requirements, and Chuck Donovan on how The New York Times misrepresented the numbers to defend Planned Parenthood.
Here's how Republicans can get Gorsuch confirmed, even with Democrat opposition.
Recent reports indicate that the Trump administration and House Republicans are considering "work requirements" in Medicaid as part of their overall health care reform package.
Since clerking for Gorsuch, Janie Nitze's career has taken her to the Supreme Court, where she clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and to the Justice Department, where she served as an attorney under President Obama.
The Washington Post suggested that Daily Signal correspondent Fred Lucas' participation in the White House press pool could have "crossed a symbolic line, into greater legitimacy for the partisan press."
If Gorsuch is confirmed before the Easter recess, the process will have taken 10 weeks. That's slightly quicker than recent nominees but by no means out of the ordinary.
The piece is little more than a recycling of old, problematic studies conducted by a partisan research group, combined with both anecdotal and selective evidence drawn from interviews and media reports.
"The Daily Signal, along with all other forms of conservative media being trashed by the left, ought to wear that criticism as a badge of honor," writes Barbara Sbrogna.
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