Posted on 03/23/2017 10:02:12 AM PDT by Cheerio
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Democrat said Thursday he will oppose President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and lead a filibuster of the choice, setting up a politically charged showdown with Republicans with far-reaching implications for future judicial nominees.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer criticized Judge Neil Gorsuch, saying he “almost instinctively favors the powerful over the weak” and would not serve as a check on Trump or be a mainstream justice.
“I have concluded that I cannot support Neil Gorsuch’s nomination,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “My vote will be no and I urge my colleagues to do the same.”
Shortly before Schumer’s announcement, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, who faces re-election next year in a state Trump won, also announced his opposition. Casey said he had “serious concerns about Judge Gorsuch’s rigid and restrictive judicial philosophy, manifest in a number of opinions he has written on the 10th Circuit.”
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Casey’s a demo-lib maroon....He makes drying paint look exciting.
If it weren’t for his Dad, (who was a good man, and trounced by his own party) he’d be shuffling papers at the Lackawanna Co courthouse.
Casey is a no-named nothing DEMOCRAT Senator from PA.
Game on! We will w find out what Party he belongs to.
WChucky Schumer, biggest retard in Congress.
With so many to choose from, that is a tough call.
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That is almost a ‘libelous’ statement given all the choices.
Don’t even have to leave the Senate and dip into the House.
There are SO MANY TIED FOR FIRST that it is almost impossible to pick a ‘clear cut winner’ in the Idiotic poll
So, in other words, a mini-Reid?
Wow--There's a surprise.
Telegraph much, Chuck?
You are right. I thought he was a RINo.
This selection does not tilt the court anymore than it was before to die on this hill is idiocy for the democrats. If they force McWeasal to pull the trigger on the nuclear option for this judge, the next SC vacancy will just require that 51st vote. This also puts pressure on McIsane and Linda his work wife’s ability to try and do a gang of 8 Byzantine like deal with a few democrats since they are being totally unreasonable for a pick that is the status quo.
My money says Mitch doesn’t have the balls to use the nuke option if push comes to shove. He has backed down too many times to placate the left.
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Not.
Chuck Schmucker is his real name, or it should be. On display daily.
They won’t have to go nuclear. They have already tried out the rule when they shut up Warren from criticizing Sessions.
Make those assholes stand and read the telephone book for hours and hours. When one of them falls out, take the vote.
Republicans always vote for Democrat appointees. They say things like, “A president is entitled to have who he wants.”
. . . whose current term in office happens to expire in 2019 . . .Casey has been around since his (pro-life) father died.
Trump will have to sharpen his pencil and figure out whether it is better to count on a low Democrat turnout in the midterm elections due to no president on the ballot - or to nationalize the election in PA by campaigning for the Republican candidate who opposes Casey.
Casey needs a visit from AIRv FORCE #1 !!!Screw that faggot!!
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