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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I believe that RBG refused to answer ANY questions when she was confirmed 96-3 because “it would not be appropriate”, since any answers could implicate cases that could come before her.
This is the ULTIMATE Concern Troll move.
Schumer had zero motivation to vote for this guy, and will likely require us to nuke the filibuster.
This was all preordained, from November the 8th, on.
He’s got a sitz bath basin built into the chair.Obama’s only been gone a couple of weeks,Chuckie’s still healing.
Did he have those same “concerns” when he voted to put him on the Court of Appeals bench?
POS Chuckie
“The judge avoided answers like the plague.”
Upchuck just thinks the Judge avoided answering his “questions”. Upchuck isn’t intelligent enough to ask judicial questions, let alone understand the answers.
(Schwuler = Fag in German)
Oh-imagine that- who would have ever dreamed that chuckie would have problems with Trump’s nominee. Well shazammmm!
If Schumer didn’t cry the concerns are fake.
We have serious concerns about you, Chuckie.
Keep doing the devil’s work so that God may say that is where you belong.
I’m sure Chuck U. Schumer has concerns with sunlight - it burns him.
Every time I see Schmucky Chukie, I have to wash my eyes with bleach.
I pray you are RIGHT!
I’d have serious concerns about Gorsuch if Schmuckie didn’t have serious concerns.
Interesting. I always had concerns about Schumer.
Chuck U, Schumer
Buzzie Ginsburg, former ACLU Attorney was Confirmed 97 to 3 by the Senate.
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