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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
...he wants...

Wanting and getting are two different things.

...whether he was comfortable filibustering any Trump nominee for the court, Schumer dodged answering the question directly.

He's worried he can't get 41 votes?

81 posted on 11/20/2016 3:11:00 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shut up Chuck. Nobody cares what you want, anymore.


82 posted on 11/20/2016 3:11:28 PM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Schumer: Trump should pick 'mainstream' candidate to fill Supreme Court vacancy

Schumer is stunningly stupid! Or must think the rest of us are.

The political climate of the last 8 years guarantees that NO 'MAINSTREAM' CANDIDATE exists.
The Democrats created the problem and the new elected powers that be need to sort things out before agreeing to ANYTHING THE DIMS PROPOSE.

83 posted on 11/20/2016 3:12:14 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He guaranteed that he would choose from the list he put out. It was not “the types of people”, rather I thought he said he would choose from the list. Thus, the people voted knowing the potential nominees. It is not as if this is a big unknown.


84 posted on 11/20/2016 3:12:22 PM PST by Anima Mundi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Mainstream"

**cough, cough, spit**

85 posted on 11/20/2016 3:13:47 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like Obama and Clinton did, Chuckie?


86 posted on 11/20/2016 3:15:41 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We have Trump’s list, vetted by the Federalist society. That is pretty main-stream in my book.


87 posted on 11/20/2016 3:16:13 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s George Marlin doing these days?


88 posted on 11/20/2016 3:18:17 PM PST by Oratam
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To: Dilbert San Diego

>> The vote on Alito was 58-42 as I recall. <<

Not only that, but I’d bet the only four Dems who supported him did so after it was clear they couldn’t get 50 votes to block him. None of those four Dems are still in the senate.


89 posted on 11/20/2016 3:18:28 PM PST by dangus
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To: Amendment10
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.

Only the failures from Harvard law school are destined to practice law. The great successes move on to other realms, Senators, judges, legal scholars, where they are free to invent alternative systems of law, unconstrained by the US constitution and the common law context that give it meaning, and the citizens justice.

90 posted on 11/20/2016 3:18:36 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: HarleyLady27

We might want to remind ManbITCH MCCONNELL to disallow the filibuster in the upcoming 2017 senate session. Harry started it and now the dems can eat it.


91 posted on 11/20/2016 3:22:35 PM PST by sevlex
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Go feck yourself, Schumer. We're putting Attila the Hun on the bench. Then we're coming for you and your ilk.


92 posted on 11/20/2016 3:22:42 PM PST by Viking2002 (My attitude in your rear view mirror may be bigger than it appears......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chuckie’s idea of mainstream is a Republican caught between a dog and a lamp post


93 posted on 11/20/2016 3:23:37 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So when a lib justice dies, they claim the Pubster POTUS should replace them with a lib to maintain the balance. Is Upchuck forgetting that rule?


94 posted on 11/20/2016 3:24:08 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To Schumer, mainstream would be slightly to the left of Fidel Castro...


95 posted on 11/20/2016 3:25:02 PM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When did Schumer suggest Obama pick a scotus candidate conservatives would like?


96 posted on 11/20/2016 3:25:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yes, they did not have to go as far as SCOTUS for the nuclear option under Reid. The Dems are not going to cooperate in voting for any justice who is pro-life


97 posted on 11/20/2016 3:26:21 PM PST by doug from upland (time to bring down the Clinton money laundering foundation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is that what O-Vomit did with Kagan and Sotomayor?

Go somewhere and sit your liberal ass down, Chuckles. Elections have consequences and we won. You get your one vote for every justice President Trump nominates. That’s it. Deal with it.


98 posted on 11/20/2016 3:26:32 PM PST by VideoPaul
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does mainstream mean acceptable to the mainstream media? He is ringing that bell, and wants the press to have veto power over Trump’s pick.


99 posted on 11/20/2016 3:26:49 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Miltonlity.)
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To: taildragger

I’m sure Trump will thank Schumer for his input, pat him on the head, and send him away.


100 posted on 11/20/2016 3:27:30 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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