The American Bar Association declared this week that Judge Neil Gorsuch is “well-qualified” to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, giving President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia the group’s highest rating.
The ABA’s standing committee on the federal judiciary reached the decision unanimously, according to Chairwoman Nancy Scott Degan, who informed Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee’s ranking member, in a letter Thursday.
Grassley offered a glowing statement in response to the group’s announcement:
