After GOP leaders blocked former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, Senate Democrats have the chance to strike back — using a filibuster to deny President Donald Trump’s nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch. But Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, of Massachusetts, says they likely won’t take it.

“We’re not going to be obstructionists like that,” Moulton said in an interview with Boston Public Radio on Wednesday. “I think we’re better than that. This isn’t a sort of schoolhouse game that the Republicans seem to make it into. We should do the right thing for the country, regardless of what the Republicans do in return.”

Moulton doesn't support the nomination of the deeply conservative Gorsuch, he said, “knowing what I know now.” But he also believes Trump’s pick deserves a full hearing, despite a bitter history of GOP obstructionism.

“For ten months, the Republicans prevented a hearing on Merrick Garland, the Supreme Court nominee,” Moulton said. “Democrats probably will give [Gorsuch] a full hearing, but he’s got to be a mainstream, bipartisan candidate — the kind of person who can rise above partisan politics — if he deserves to be a member of the Supreme Court.”

Gorsuch has faced Democratic criticism for his opinion in Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius, where he wrote that corporations and individual owners could challenge a mandate requiring them to provide contraceptive coverage as part of their health insurance plans. In a dissenting opinion in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Burwell, Gorsuch wrote that requiring hospitals to provide abortions was an example of “the courts [feeling] free to override the conscience of health care providers.”

Democrats probably will give him a full hearing, but he’s got to be a mainstream, bipartisan candidate — the kind of person who can rise above partisan politics — if he deserves to be a member of the Supreme Court.

“There are real concerns on his views on women’s health and the rights to make their own health care decisions that women certainly deserve,” Moulton said.

Moulton, a former Marine Corps officer, took issue with Trump’s recent executive order on immigration, for both personal and professional.

“It makes it next to impossible to work with our critical Muslims allies on the ground," Moulton said. "The translators, the intelligence sources, these Muslims who are willing to fight terrorism in their home countries and put their lives on the line, not just for their country but for ours. When we ask them to do that, as I often did on the ground in Iraq with numerous Iraqis that I worked with, we make a promise.”

President Trump’s immigration order included a 90-day ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority nations and a permanent halt on immigration from Syria. The original order included both current visa holders and legal permanent residents, but the administration amended it on Sunday to exclude green-card holders.

According to Moulton, the vetting process for refugees is already strict enough. “It’s the most comprehensive screening for any traveler coming through the United States,” he said. “If you are a terrorist and you want to come to America, going through the refugee channel is almost the worst way to come.”

The real danger, according to Moulton, is the conflict this might incite between America and these nations. “There has been no indication from the administration what they might actually do to improve that vetting process,” Moulton said. “In the meantime, they’re turning the Muslim world against us … it’s very clear that Trump and his team in the oval office, including Steve Bannon, the white supremacist, didn’t even consult people in their own cabinet.”

Moulton has been a longtime vocal critic of Trump, likening Trump’s campaign to Hitler’s rise in 1930s Germany and more recently saying he was “ashamed” to have Trump as a president. Where Governor Charlie Baker has taken a more conservatively critical route for fear of losing federal funds, Moulton says it’s important to take a stand.

“My first duty is to tell the truth," he said. "That’s what people elected me to do — to not sugarcoat or politicize things but to just to tell the truth. This is absolutely not about partisan politics ... I don’t think that from what Trump has been doing, that he [believes in the constitution]. I think he’s uniquely dangerous for our country.”

They’re turning the Muslim world against us.

Moulton has criticized Baker for his absence during recent protests against the travel ban and during the Women’s March, where Moulton shuttled buses of people — including WGBH News’ Margery Eagan — to the protest in D.C.

“What you’re asking him to do, or you’re suggesting he should do, is play politics here," he said. "I think this is too dangerous a time to play politics. When our constitution, when our fundamental values are under assault from the highest office in the land ... you’ve got to stand up. You’ve got to put values in our constitution ahead of politics.”

Moulton wouldn't deny rumors that he is considering a run for governor against Baker in 2018. “Look, I’m not saying anything about politics right now,” Moulton said. “What we’re talking about is what Trump is doing to our country and how that should be a concern on the mind of everybody.”

To hear Rep. Moulton’s full interview with Boston Public Radio, click on the audio link above.