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Schumer: Trump should pick 'mainstream' candidate to fill Supreme Court vacancy
The Washington Examiner ^ | November 20, 2016 | Ryan Lovelace

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.


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: cruz; democrats; no; nuclearoption; putz; schmuckschemer; schumer; scotus; supremecourt; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What Chuckie doesn’t seem to get is President -elect Trump is always 8 steps ahead of him and try as he might, Chuckie is still 8 steps behind.


41 posted on 11/20/2016 2:40:50 PM PST by teletech
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To: NobleFree

As a NY businessman I am sure he has had to deal with Schumer a lot. But today, as Schumer will soon realize, Trump isn’t just a businessman and and Schumer is still a senator.


42 posted on 11/20/2016 2:41:29 PM PST by libh8er
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To: Godebert; bluecollarman
Cruz has no understanding of The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God

How did you arrive at that conclusion?

43 posted on 11/20/2016 2:41:42 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He should tweet that he’s thinking about appointing Merrick Garland just to screw with their heads


44 posted on 11/20/2016 2:41:54 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump is going to go along with whatever Obama and Chuckie, and the media say right now.

You want to know why?

Because Oblunder still is dangerous with a pen in his hand.

Trump is not going to rock the boat until Jan 20th. After that he will tell them to pound sand.

45 posted on 11/20/2016 2:42:47 PM PST by Wizdum (Buckle up! It's going to be one hell of a ride.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chuck, you obviously missed the memo....the Democrat party sucks. the GOP E party sucks...you are no longer in control...sit down...shut up and let Donald Trump and the adults run the thing for a while..


46 posted on 11/20/2016 2:43:24 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blow it out your ass, you schmuck!


47 posted on 11/20/2016 2:43:29 PM PST by Redleg Duke (Time for a new party for We the People, to restore a two-party system!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who ever Trump picks, the fight in the Senate will be brutal.


48 posted on 11/20/2016 2:43:48 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why should Trump listen to someone who clearly did not vote for him? I know that the person elected is supposed to be the President for everyone but since so may say he is “not my President” and their party’s elected representatives do nothing to quell the unrest I think Trump would be right to ignore them all and treat them in the manner they present themselves, ungoverned.


49 posted on 11/20/2016 2:44:30 PM PST by TonyM
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Guess what, Chuckie, We ARE the Mainstream.


50 posted on 11/20/2016 2:46:17 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Whatever Harvard Law School is indoctrinating students with, it is certainly not the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.

With all due respect to Sen. Schumer, low-information, state sovereignty-ignoring Schumer is an excellent example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and the 16th Amendment along with it.

If patriots do not work with Trump to make Congress surrender state powers that the corrupt feds have stolen from the states back to the states, then consider the following.

It is only a matter of time before we have another lawless president like Obama that works in cahoots with corrupt Congress to use those stolen state power to oppress the states and the people.

51 posted on 11/20/2016 2:46:20 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let me give you some information ‘Chucky’:

One: you can’t stop any of his choices if all Republicans vote for the person...remember Dingy Harry changed that...oh...to bad...

Second: We Won, You Lost...remember YOUR president said that...now go to the back of the bus and sit down and shut the F. UP!!!


52 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:23 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Schumer has a mandate from Schumer to be a biggest bloated ass in the dimwit party.


53 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:30 PM PST by Leep (Winner winner chicken dinner!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chuckie’s idea of mainstream is another Ginsburg.


54 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:46 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The “main stream” is a sewer.


55 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:46 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

schumer - mainstream?? Those two words together just don’t compute. Not in the slightest


56 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:54 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: NobleFree
"How did you arrive at that conclusion? "

He illegally attempted to usurp the presidency.

57 posted on 11/20/2016 2:47:55 PM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words, a statist leftoid.


58 posted on 11/20/2016 2:49:48 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: NobleFree

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The dude is a pathetic mess, and has no idea who Ted Cruz is.


59 posted on 11/20/2016 2:51:04 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, just like the “mainstream” candidate they would have chosen. YOU LOST CHUCKY!!! And this is the best reason why.


60 posted on 11/20/2016 2:52:02 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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