(Radio Iowa/updated) – Senator Chuck Grassley says the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is off to a good start this (Monday) morning. ) “I’ve continually emphasized the need for a thorough, respectful process by the committee,” Grassley says. Grassley says Democrats turned the opening hours of the 2018 hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh into a spectacle and Republicans are taking a different approach.

“What we will do, however, is ask tough questions about Judge Jackson’s judicial philosophy,” Grassley says. “In any Supreme Court nomination, the most important thing we look for is the nominee’s view of the law, judicial philosophy and view on the role of a judge in our Constitutional system.” Grassley is the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“We depend on judges to interpret laws as we write them,” Grassley says. “If judges impose their own policy preferences from the bench and, essentially, revise the laws we pass, it makes it harder for us to write good laws.” Grassley has said if he’s reelected in November and Republicans regain control of the U.S. Senate, he’d be able to return as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.