For a senior Senator to announce how he intends to vote on an iminently qualified USSC nominee, before the nominee is even named, reveals how petty and partisan they truly are.
It also should tell everyone that everything they say about a "new tone" and "bi-partisanship" is all lies. Flat out horse pucky.
I think a spunky Republican Senator should bring ethics charges against Schumer, saying that his little announcement here is a violation of his responsibilities as a member of the Judiciary committee and he doesn't have the temperment to sit on it.
I don't care whom the Dems have to replace him with, if there were some way to get him off this committee, it would kill him.