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Schumer calls on Kavanaugh to withdraw from Supreme Court confirmation process
Vox ^ | September 26, 2018 | Li Zhou

Posted on 09/26/2018 11:38:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer thinks it’s time for Brett Kavanaugh to withdraw from the Supreme Court confirmation process. If he won’t, Schumer called for Republicans to press pause on Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination in the wake of explosive new allegations of sexual misconduct that emerged against him on Wednesday.

“I strongly believe Judge Kavanaugh should withdraw from consideration. If he will not, at the very least, the hearing and vote should be postponed while the FBI investigates all of these allegations,” said Schumer in a statement released on Wednesday. “If our Republican colleagues proceed without an investigation, it would be a travesty for the honor of the Supreme Court and our country.”

It’s a call that all ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have now echoed as well. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris and Richard Blumenthal are among those who have signed onto a letter urging Trump to withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination....

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TOPICS: California; Connecticut; Hawaii; New York; Rhode Island; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: abortion; blumenthal; brettkavanaugh; california; calstatefullerton; christineblaseyford; chuckschumer; connecticut; diannefeinstein; fbi; kamalaharris; kavanaugh; lyinglimolib; maga; newyork; richardblumenthal; richardcblum; russia; sanfrancisco; schumer; scotus; sheldonwhitehouse; supremecourt; upchuckschumer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

GWB, white courtesy phone


21 posted on 09/26/2018 11:44:51 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Schumer the script reader. Loath that sob!


22 posted on 09/26/2018 11:44:54 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (If your church believes in evolution it is not a Christian church.)
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To: Dr. Pritchett
I hope that the democrats continue down this road, every 48 hours a new fabricated accusation. Mikie Avenatti should take over the lead to present all these accusation. Every day another voters watching the evening news throws down the paper and says to his wife, "that's it, I am voting republican. This wave is sweeping the USA. Watch it happen at the Mid Terms.
23 posted on 09/26/2018 11:45:26 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: rktman

I represent a client who has a recovered memory in which Sen. Schumer, while blind drunk, molested a horse. These accusations are very serious, so Sen. Schumer must stand before a committee and prove that he did not engage in bestiality while inebriated.


24 posted on 09/26/2018 11:45:44 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The increasing level of hysteria from the Democrats as we get closer to a vote, it’s almost like we’re in Lord of the Rings and Sauron knows we’re about to stuff the ring up his ass


25 posted on 09/26/2018 11:46:03 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: JimRed

I prefer he jump from a 12 floor Window.

They can withdraw him from the pavement...


26 posted on 09/26/2018 11:46:37 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I call for hearings to commence immediately where any sitting Senator or Representative that has Communist or Socialist ties or any who have espoused Communist or Socialist views are removed from the body for violation of their Oath of Office to Support and Defend our Constitution -— ALL of our Constitution.

Let’s start with the Dems first, since they are so obviously guilty, and then work through the Reps who are conflicted, too.


27 posted on 09/26/2018 11:46:48 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The orchestrator of the lie/smear campaign finally speaks up.


28 posted on 09/26/2018 11:47:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Schmucky..as my mother eloquently says..GO F YOURSELF


29 posted on 09/26/2018 11:47:28 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Trump20162020; ealgeone; NorthMountain; hsmomx3; cowboyusa; DouglasKC; Josa; ...
LOL! OMG! ROFL! Omigah they are KILLING me! LOL! holy crap! HAHAHHAHH! HAHAHHAHHAAHAHHAHH! LOL! WTF! They GOTTA be smoking CRACK! ROFLASC! (gasp) LOL! OMG! ROFL! LAF! HA! This is the FUNNIEST thing I have EVER heard! LOL LOL LOL! Gah, they gotta be kidding! YGBSM! STOP!!! LOL! ROFLASC! This is too much! LOL! OMG! (gasp) HOO HOO HOOOOOOO! ROFL! LAF! HA! They are on DRUGS! LOL LOL HAHAHHAHH! HAHAHHAHHAAHAHHAHH! LOL! YGBSM! What will they think of next! LOL! ROFLASC! LOL! Waiter, check please! OMG! ROFL! This is fantastic material! LAF! (gasp) HA! HAHAHHAHH! LOL LOL LOL! YGBSM! LOL! Wow! ROFLASC! LOL! Amazing they can come up with this stuff! OMG! ROFL! LAF! TRULY spectacular! HA! STOP you are KILLING ME!!!! LOL LOL LOL! (gasp) YGBSM! Elvis has LEFT THE BUILDING! LOL! ROFLASC! LOL! I know who's responsible: ALIENS! OMG! ROFL! This is something *Pelosi* came up with, ISN'T it??? GASPING for breath over here!! LAF! HA! LOL LOL LOL! Wonderful, wonderful comedy! YGBSM! LOL! ROFLASC! LOL! This is much better than 'Cats'! OMG! ROFL! Holy Toledo! LAF! (gasp) HA! I am GOBSMACKED! LOL LOL LOL! Where's Debbie Wasserman-Shultz! She must be the source of this! YGBSM! LOL! HA! HA! HA! FUNNIEST thing EVER!!!! ROFL! LOL! OMG OMG OMG! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH! (gasp)*

*At this point, all you can do with these people, is point at them and laugh.


30 posted on 09/26/2018 11:47:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Army Air Corps

I saw Merrick Garland diddle little boys. Let him prove otherwise or move onto impeachment.


31 posted on 09/26/2018 11:47:58 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These people forget that Kavanaugh sat in limbo for nearly THREE YEARS whole the Democrats stalled his confirmation process to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

They're calling on Trump to withdraw the nomination because they know Kavanaugh ain't backing down.

32 posted on 09/26/2018 11:48:22 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
John Adams' son, John Quincy, was 9 years old when the Declaration of Independence was written, 20 when the Constitution was framed, and from his teen years, served in various capacities in both the Legislative and Executive branches of the government, including as President. His words on this subject should be instructive on the subject at hand.

In 1839, JQA was invited by the New York Historical Society to deliver the "Jubilee" Address (www.lonang.com) honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Washington. He delivered that lengthy discourse which should be read by all who love liberty, for it traced the history of the development of the ideas underlying and the actions leading to the establishment of the Constitution which structured the United States government. His 50th-year summation seems to be a better source for understanding the kind of government the Founders formed than those of recent historians and politicians. He addresses the ideas of "democracy" and "republic" throughout, but here are some of his concluding remarks:

"Every change of a President of the United States, has exhibited some variety of policy from that of his predecessor. In more than one case, the change has extended to political and even to moral principle; but the policy of the country has been fashioned far more by the influences of public opinion, and the prevailing humors in the two Houses of Congress, than by the judgment, the will, or the principles of the President of the United States. The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor; or either House of Congress will effectually control his power. It is thus, and in no other sense that the Constitution of the United States is democratic - for the government of our country, instead of a Democracy the most simple, is the most complicated government on the face of the globe. From the immense extent of our territory, the difference of manners, habits, opinions, and above all, the clashing interests of the North, South, East, and West, public opinion formed by the combination of numerous aggregates, becomes itself a problem of compound arithmetic, which nothing but the result of the popular elections can solve.

"It has been my purpose, Fellow-Citizens, in this discourse to show:-

"1. That this Union was formed by a spontaneous movement of the people of thirteen English Colonies; all subjects of the King of Great Britain - bound to him in allegiance, and to the British empire as their country. That the first object of this Union,was united resistance against oppression, and to obtain from the government of their country redress of their wrongs.

"2. That failing in this object, their petitions having been spurned, and the oppressions of which they complained, aggravated beyond endurance, their Delegates in Congress, in their name and by their authority, issued the Declaration of Independence - proclaiming them to the world as one people, absolving them from their ties and oaths of allegiance to their king and country - renouncing that country; declared the UNITED Colonies, Independent States, and announcing that this ONE PEOPLE of thirteen united independent states, by that act, assumed among the powers of the earth, that separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitled them.

"3. That in justification of themselves for this act of transcendent power, they proclaimed the principles upon which they held all lawful government upon earth to be founded - which principles were, the natural, unalienable, imprescriptible rights of man, specifying among them, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - that the institution of government is to secure to men in society the possession of those rights: that the institution, dissolution, and reinstitution of government, belong exclusively to THE PEOPLE under a moral responsibility to the Supreme Ruler of the universe; and that all the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed.

"4. That under this proclamation of principles, the dissolution of allegiance to the British king, and the compatriot connection with the people of the British empire, were accomplished; and the one people of the United States of America, became one separate sovereign independent power, assuming an equal station among the nations of the earth.

"5. That this one people did not immediately institute a government for themselves. But instead of it, their delegates in Congress, by authority from their separate state legislatures, without voice or consultation of the people, instituted a mere confederacy.

"6. That this confederacy totally departed from the principles of the Declaration of independence, and substituted instead of the constituent power of the people, an assumed sovereignty of each separate state, as the source of all its authority.

"7. That as a primitive source of power, this separate state sovereignty,was not only a departure from the principles of the Declaration of Independence, but directly contrary to, and utterly incompatible with them.

"8. That the tree was made known by its fruits. That after five years wasted in its preparation, the confederation dragged out a miserable existence of eight years more, and expired like a candle in the socket, having brought the union itself to the verge of dissolution.

"9. That the Constitution of the United States was a return to the principles of the Declaration of independence, and the exclusive constituent power of the people. That it was the work of the ONE PEOPLE of the United States; and that those United States, though doubled in numbers, still constitute as a nation, but ONE PEOPLE.

"10. That this Constitution, making due allowance for the imperfections and errors incident to all human affairs, has under all the vicissitudes and changes of war and peace, been administered upon those same principles, during a career of fifty years.

"11. That its fruits have been, still making allowance for human imperfection, a more perfect union, established justice, domestic tranquility, provision for the common defence, promotion of the general welfare, and the enjoyment of the blessings of liberty by the constituent people, and their posterity to the present day.

"And now the future is all before us, and Providence our guide."

In an earlier paragraph, he had stated:

"But this institution was republican, and even democratic. And here not to be misunderstood, I mean by democratic, a government, the administration of which must always be rendered comfortable to that predominating public opinion . . . and by republican I mean a government reposing, not upon the virtues or the powers of any one man - not upon that honor, which Montesquieu lays down as the fundamental principle of monarchy - far less upon that fear which he pronounces the basis of despotism; but upon that virtue which he, a noble of aristocratic peerage, and the subject of an absolute monarch, boldly proclaims as a fundamental principle of republican government. The Constitution of the United States was republican and democratic - but the experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived; and it was obvious that if virtue - the virtue of the people, was the foundation of republican government, the stability and duration of the government must depend upon the stability and duration of the virtue by which it is sustained." ______________________ (End of excerpt)

And, finally, an Excerpt from the "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" (1886) (of Declaration of Independence) by a Black Ohio Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop Benjamin W. Arnett on "The Greatness of America" - Note that this Sermon is delivered only a few years after the end of the Civil War by this outstanding scholar/legislator/Bishop.

"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" - Library of Congress - African-American Section


33 posted on 09/26/2018 11:48:47 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: MountainWalker
... and Sauron knows we’re about to stuff the ring up his ass.

Just before tossing him into the lava of Mount Doom.

34 posted on 09/26/2018 11:49:40 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s time for Schmuck to withdraw from the human race.

His membership is suspect.


35 posted on 09/26/2018 11:50:39 AM PDT by gogeo (No justice, no peace.)
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To: loveliberty2

I really really hope Trump has the goods on Schumer.

All those years in NY ?

Gotta be something there ......


36 posted on 09/26/2018 11:51:20 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe we should charge Chuckie Schumer with genocide over his efforts to justify burning women & children alive at Waco, as part of Janet Reno's anti Second Amendment foray in the early '90s.

I will never forget the rodent eyed look on his ugly face, when he defended the operation at the House Committee hearing as to the rules of the engagement. It was a couple of years after the Ruby Ridge murders, and I have always believed that Waco was intended as a follow up; but I admit that I cannot prove it.

37 posted on 09/26/2018 11:51:38 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s all ya got, Chuck U. Pathetic.


38 posted on 09/26/2018 11:52:36 AM PDT by JPG (MAGA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Surprise, surprise, surprise.


39 posted on 09/26/2018 11:53:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Parley Baer

40 posted on 09/26/2018 11:53:16 AM PDT by GOPJ ( <img src=”https://i.imgur.com/li3mn5N.jpg";></img>)
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