Former Vice President Joe Biden blasted President Donald Trump's appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in a new interview.
Sitting down with the Pod Save America podcast, which is hosted by four veterans of the Obama White House, Biden said he would fight tooth and nail to prevent another Gorsuch from being approved to the nation's high court if he were back in the Senate.
"I would work like the devil if I were in the Senate, if we had a Democratic Senate, to keep [another] Gorsuch from going on the court," Biden said. "The single most damaging thing thus far, short of what may happen to our foreign policy, to all the things I care about, was Gorsuch going to the court.
"But he replaced a guy that was there who was in the same position. So at least it didn't add to the problem, but it reinforced and maintained that position for a long time."
Gorsuch replaced the late Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly at age 79 in February 2016. The Republican-led Senate refused to hold hearings on former President Barack Obama's nominee to replace him, Merrick Garland, because 2016 was an election year.
Biden slammed that move as well.
"The next [court appointee] is gigantic. Gigantic. And I think everything should be done and can be done within the constitutional parameters," Biden said. "But guys, if we start to add on to disregarding the Constitution, if we continue to strike back by using the same methods he used of abusing the system, by prostituting the Democratic processes …"
Biden went on to accuse Trump of trying to delegitimize the media, Congress, and the intelligence community in an effort to "clear the space to be able to abuse power. All these things were put in place to prevent the abuse of power."
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