How Ben Sasse says he helped put Barrett on the court
Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse says he pressured President Trump to nominate “this Catholic lady from Notre Dame” to the Supreme Court — presumably Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Mr. Sasse shared the story during an episode of his podcast “Not Dead Yet” released last week.
He said that as a non-lawyer member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he had to learn about Mr. Trump’s judicial nominations. He and the president had phone calls about then-Judge Barrett after Mr. Trump nominated the former Notre Dame professor to a circuit court.
“I immediately started pressuring him to nominate her to the Supreme Court, so one of Donald Trump’s very funny habits is that he often reduces people to two things,” Mr. Sasse said. “And anyway, that’s what comes up every time you talk to him. My three things were: don’t dress well, wear a Nebraska sweater on TV. […] a super religious guy who really loves his family.
“That suits me,” Mr. Sasse said. “And over time, he added that I was a monster obsessed with “that Catholic lady from Notre Dame.” The president became obsessed with the idea that I was obsessed with getting Amy on the field.
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Mr. Trump nominated Judge Barrett in 2020 to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Surprisingly, Mr. Sasse often criticized Mr. Trump during his time in the Senate. He left Capitol Hill in 2023 and served as president of the University of Florida until July 2024.
Mr. Sasse announced in December that he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
