(Pol Pot)
Posted on 11/20/2016 2:26:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he wants President-elect Trump to select a "mainstream" candidate to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Asked by NBC on Sunday whether he was comfortable filibustering any Trump nominee for the court, Schumer dodged answering the question directly.
"I hope that President Trump picks a mainstream candidate," Schumer said. "A mainstream candidate is somebody you may not agree with on every issue, but basically believes in precedent."
NBC's Chuck Todd interrupted Schumer and asked, "What does that mean? Can he nominate somebody in your mind that is, say, [Texas Sen.] Ted Cruz? Is he too conservative for you?"
"I'm not going to get into specific candidates, but we'd hope it would be mainstream," Schumer answered. "If it is mainstream, you have to remember, the last four nominees, two from President Bush, two from President Obama, got bipartisan support on the bench. If he doesn't nominate a mainstream candidate, we're going to go at him with everything we have, or her. Go at the candidate with everything we've got because this is so, so important."
Schumer expressed a willingness to work with Trump on issues where the president-elect and Democratic Party agree in a series of Sunday morning interviews. Trump responded by praising Schumer on Twitter.
(Pol Pot)
How avout a judge that believes in the Constitution instead of one that just believes in precedent.
Precedent doesn’t always mean it was decided constitutionally
Scumer should be filling a “mainstream” prison cell along with the rest of the corrupt Dems and RINOs in the Senate.
“Schumer: Trump should pick ‘mainstream’ candidate to fill Supreme Court vacancy”
Chuck, I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, but Karl Marx is dead.
Right. After all he is only one senator from the one-hundred others around town.
Please define “mainstream”, Chuck. I could use a laugh.
How about Ted Nugent?
Sorry, Chuckie, no dice. Scalia’s replacement should be even MORE conservative. You, know, an adherent to the US Constitution.
Too bad..so sad. Elections have consequences, DemocRATS. America won. Those that hate America, her citizens, and America’s greatness lost. DEAL WITH IT.
I can only hope Trump will elect the most reviled by democrats candidate.
They get to demand nothing. Their party is decimated under it’s own doing.
So long, you suck.
Ann Coulter is pretty mainstream.
Pray America woke
He would probably need written instructions.
Tell CHUCKIE to STFU - commie bitch!
Mainstream = anyone to the left of Karl Marx.
Who cares what Amy Schumer says.
The Dems will destroy whoever Trump nominates so the first one should be someone that is so distasteful that he Left will throw every spitwad they’ve got. Then, after they’ve exhausted their reserves, come back with the guy you wanted all along saying he/she is more mainstream than his first choice. Therefore, Trump gets who he wants and the Left thinks they’ve drawn a line in the sand.
I sure hope he doesn’t nominate his pro-abort sister.
chuckie definition of mainstream:
Has been living in the swamp so long as to not know there is anything in the world except swamp.
Anyone beyond the edge of the swamp is clearly fringe and not mainstream.
I was thinking LaPierre to head the BATF.
Schumer at least is smart. Reid was stupid as well as malignant.
Wouldn’t matter if the pick were to be ‘mainstream’ - whatever that means - Schumer’s troops in the Media will portray him as being to the right of Hitler.
I say ‘Swing-Away’ President Trump.
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