'She's considered to be a fair-minded, highly gifted jurist. She is one of the most decent people I've ever met,' the Republican senator said.
from the high court at the end of its term this summer if a successor has been confirmed by the Senate.
Childs has served on the federal bench since 2010 and was a state trial court judge on the South Carolina Circuit Court. She also worked as a commissioner of the state's Workers Compensation Commission. "I'd like to see the court have a little more balance, some common sense on it," Graham said."Everybody doesn't have to be from Harvard or Yale. It's OK to go to a public university and get your law degree."
"It says to every little child up there growing up under moderate circumstances, needing the entire community to help raise it, getting scholarships to go up to school because she couldn't afford to go otherwise, going to public schools because you didn't get an offer from one of the big private schools — it says to them, you've got just as much of a chance to benefit from the greatness of this country as everybody else," he said.
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