Biden to welcome Senate Judiciary Democrats to the White House Thursday
Biden, the official added, “has also continued his conversations with Republicans this week,” but declined to provide specific details on whom he has spoken with. He also continues to consult with “a diverse group of legal experts,” the official noted.
Biden previously met with the committee’s chair, Sen. Dick Durbin, and top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, in the Oval Office last week. He also spoke to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last week.
The President, the official said, is “grateful to all of the members who are working with him in good faith during this process.”
All of the candidates the White House is considering, the official said, are “deserving of bipartisan support because of their deep qualifications.”
Daily strategy meetings inside the West Wing are also underway as Biden has spent several evenings in the residence reviewing binders related to past cases of potential picks.
“As he’s looking at the process, he’s reviewing not just bios, but he’s also reviewing cases and he is looking at binders of cases, because he is … taking this approach very seriously. He’s taking a very thorough approach to it,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday.
Psaki noted that Biden remains on track to select a nominee before his self-imposed end-of-February deadline.
Former Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who will guide the eventual nominee through the process in the role known in Washington as Sherpa, started working at the White House Tuesday.
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