Posted on 02/07/2017 2:14:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he has "serious concerns" about Judge Neil Gorsuch after meeting with the Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday — and struggling to get straight answers from him.
"The judge avoided answers like the plague. This president is testing fundamental underpinnings of our democracy and its institutions. These times deserve answers and judge Gorsuch did not provide them. I have serious, serious concerns about this nominee," Schumer told reporters during Democrats' weekly press conference.
Schumer said he'd asked Gorsuch specifically about whether a ban on Muslims entering the country would pass constitutional muster and what his view was on the emoluments clause of the Constitution — a conflicts-of-interest clause Democrats say President Trump violated because of his refusal to fully divest from his businesses when he became President.
"I asked him about the emoluments clause and he refused to even say what the framers thought about that clause," Schumer complained.
The Democratic leader didn't fully close the door on voting for Gorsuch, but the comments were the latest indication that he's ready to dig in his heels and battle the nomination.
And while Schumer said the nomniee is "clearly a very smart, polite and capable man who loves being a judge," he warned that his nomination "comes at a perilous time in the relationship between the executive and judicial branches."
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Thanks! Had to find the perfect expression!
After next week, you’ll be much more concerned about your trial for pedophilia, etc., Chuck E. Schumer.
Translation: "He didn't fall into any of the traps I set to try to smear him for being almost as single-mindedly intolerant and me and my side are...."
Grinning ain’t winning . . . sorry Chuckie!
So true, and that Half Chia pet hairdo is as fake as you are chuckle...
So, it IS 51 votes? Schumer was saying as recently as yesterday that it would take 60 votes to confirm Gorsuch.
Schumer counting on MSM to drive that, so they can say the Republicans cheated.
Irony is they are the ones who set the 51 bar, and now that its been used by them they fear their own “ weapon” will be used on them....
Live by the sword, die by the sword......
Yeah and people in hell want ice water. Schumer doesn’t make the rules. The GOP does in the senate. Now whether the GOP changes the rules or not is another discussion
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