Posted on 06/27/2018 3:34:14 PM PDT by wmileo
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned President Trump and Republicans against nominating a Supreme Court justice to replace Anthony Kennedy prior to the 2018 election, and demanded they reject any nominee who would seek to overturn Roe v. Wade.
"[R]eproductive rights for women and countless other protections for middle-class Americans are at stake," Schumer said.
He demanded that the Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, abide by the so-called Biden Rule when deciding to commence proceedings to confirm a Supreme Court pick.
In 1992, then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) gave a speech calling for Congress to delay any prospective Supreme Court pick until after then-President George Bush's ultimately unsuccessful reelection bid. There was no vacancy on the bench at the time, but Biden drew references to the "rancor" over Justice Clarence Thomas' nomination.
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1 1/2 years into a term, and a President is to consider himself a lame duck for purposes of judicial appointment?
Doesn’t pass the laugh test, Chuck.
Yeah - FU.
We’re done playing by your “rules” (courtesies). We’ll play by the law.
Elections have consequences asshole.
Chuck, the Smuck, is in NO position to “demand” anything.
This commie, anti-American POS can take a fly F at a slow rolling donut.
Demands ? yep that’ll work ,LOL
Up yours Chuckie.
Well Cryin’ Chuck, you can demand in one hand and ___in the other.
Seems to me there is a bit of a difference between a mid-term and a Presidential election. Maybe someone can explain that to Chuckie?
Chuck-stick, you don’t have the horsepower to “demand” a damn thing.
Schumer must not now or ever get anything he demands. IIRC someone saying “elections have consequences.”
Didn’t GWB nominate Alito in 2006, a mid-term election year?
I demand Schumer sit down and shut up.
Biden ain’t there. Piss on the democrats!
I don’t get this.
The Biden rule was put out there during a presidential election year. Not a year when there was not a presidential election.
So are they saying, with 2 1/2 years to go until the next presidential election ,that’s close enough to the election, that we should hold off filling a Supreme Court vacancy till after the 2020 election????
Wait a minute, weren’t they complaining when McConnell did the same thing after Scalia died?
Here’s the thing, Chuck: You don’t get to invoke the “Biden Rule,” because your party doesn’t control the Senate. McConnell did get to invoke the “Biden Rule” after Scalia died, because his party DID control the Senate. The people elected both Senates, so the people got to have their voice heard both times.
The Biden Rule? You mean “Grab everything within reach”? That rule, Chucky?
Sure thing, Schmucky.
I saw them arguing on CNN about McConnell not allowing a vote until President Trump made a nomination. But this isn’t a presidential election. Trump will still make the nomination. Then someone said that before the election, democrats in the Senate running for reelection in red States would feel pressure. I say, all the more reason to get it through before!
I checked: Alito took office on Jan. 31, 2006.
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