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.
FUCS.
You lost, and elections have consequences.
By “mainstream” Schmuckie means a proven enthusiastic babykiller, an enthusiast for making perverted sex a “right,” allowing unions to fund the Demonrat Party while not allowing Citizens United to continue, protecting government unions from attempts to free their members, keeping affirmative action” in place until the sun no longer shines, etc.
Joan Larsen would be better and more reliable. Clerked for Scalia. Serves on Michigan Supreme Court. 48 years old. No political baggage. No enemies unlike Cruz.
JFK’s pick of Byron White was the last, a judicial conservative by a Democrat.
Actually, no, nearly every Democrat agrees with Schumer in every jot and tittle.
I don’t believe Judge Moore could get more than ten senators to confirm him.
Just keep leaving the seat empty if required
NPR called Ruth Bader Ginsburg a “moderate” and hid her ties to the ACLU. That’s the type nominee Charles, turned Chuck Schumer wants appointed.
You are probably right
Like the obvious precedent of the right to gay marriage, Chuckie?
Schumer should shut up and be gone. He has nothing to do with Trump’s decisions and I don’t want him to, either.
How long has that slime ball been at the public trough, 40 years? Enough already. And Nasty Pelosi? Go home already.
You would be wrong. Schumer is a total Asshole.
Judge Jeanine Pirro, mainstream enough for me.
So shut up Shmuckie.
I thought Harry Reid created the nuclear option and now only requires a 51 majority for confirmation.
SNAFU in the LSM and Left.
Hey Schumer, “elections have consequences”.
Hey Chuckie, go F yourself.
Is Bork still alive?
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