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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Chucky is a broken record.
Give it a rest, UpChuck. You were never going to support ANYONE nominated by President Trump.
And we’re all going to get tired of listening to it before this whole thing is over....
So why did Schumer vote for Gorsuch ten years ago?
Chuckie would have “serious concerns” if President Trump had nominated Moses to the SCOTUS.
That’s a good thing. Chuckie is virtue signaling that we’ll have to kill the filibuster. Good riddance to bad trash.
Gorsuch is definitely a threat to the nation as Schumer visualizes it, especially after so much progress has been made towards eclipsing and sidelining the Constitution. Gorsuch could overturn much of that wonderful Progress.
If a candidate doesn’t drive the leftards into a slavering, convulsing, howling, puking, chewing-their-own-lips-off, full-blown “Exorcist” seizure, that candidate is not morally fit for office. (2010)
Geez....what a hack...
Dear little Chucky, you didn’t have any concerns the first time you voted to confirm him....nor the rest of your fellow Demoncrat Senators....
Chuck U and the left are worried that anyone would take away their sacrament of abortion.
Not to worry Chuck, there is the 9th and 10th amendments. NY, MA etc will always practice infanticide.
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The whole democRAT party is a solid gold collection of broken records.
On the other hand, Judge Gorsuch was shocked at what concerned him about Chuckie Schumer’s sanity.
Gorsuch is going to be elected to the Supreme Court. Schumer is going to find more American citizens, esp. Jewish ones, are going to go after his scale for selling out Israel and America.
Chuckie, we’re coming after you, you traitorous putz and after we do, the only place your smirky face is going to be is on your ass (along with your brain).
It is time to take off the gloves and rope-a-dope the Left, not with Kid Gloves, not with Boxing Gloves, but with Gloves made of Anvils and Spikes. And when our enemies are down, we stomp them into the ground with spiked boots and asphalt tampers.
Schumer has serious concerns about Gorsuch?
That’s good enough for me to want to make sure he is confirmed.
Keep behaving like a blithering idiot Chuck. The more you wag your tongue, the more votes you will loose for your Dem Party in two years.
If Scummer has serious concerns then I want Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
Love that word, Minority.
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He has serious concerns that this guy might FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION.
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