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Schumer: ‘There Is No Presumption of Innocence’ for Kavanaugh
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Posted on 09/25/2018 2:20:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Schumer: ‘There Is No Presumption of Innocence’ for Kavanaugh

BY: Aryssa Damron September 25, 2018 4:40 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said on Tuesday there is "no presumption of innocence" for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when it comes to sexual misconduct allegations because "this is not a criminal trial."

"There is no presumption of innocence or guilt when you have a nominee before you," Schumer told reporters during a press conference on Capitol Hill.

His remarks contrast those from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who said on Tuesday that Kavanaugh deserved the presumption of innocence.

"I think everybody in America understands there's a presumption of innocence. That standard of fairness is applied to every American citizen in almost every situation. I think we ought to go into these hearings with a presumption of innocence, but hear the argument on the other side, the testimony on the other side so the members of the Senate can make a decision here on a very, very significant matter," McConnell said.

Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual misconduct by two women, one who accused the nominee of sexually assaulting her in the early 1980s while they were both in high school and another who says he exposed himself at a party while they were both students at Yale. Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, who says he groped her at a party 36 years ago, are expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

"It's not a legal proceeding, it's a fact-finding proceeding," Schumer said.

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To: Sub-Driver

You mean the Soviet Union—NOT the Russian Federation today!!!!

And all the Dims may well be called “Comrade”!!!!


21 posted on 09/25/2018 2:26:35 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Lock Schmuckie up.

Now.


22 posted on 09/25/2018 2:26:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Sub-Driver

Direct violation of the constitution. That man is a traitor.


23 posted on 09/25/2018 2:26:54 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Da Coyote

Yes, it would be fitting if caught on camera one day in a carriage horse barn, down in the pine pellets with his hands on a companion goat’s rump.


24 posted on 09/25/2018 2:26:58 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Sub-Driver

OK. There’s no presumption that Chucky didn’t attend Epstein’s pedophile parties on his private island.

There’s no presumption that Chucky didn’t engage in perverted behavior at said parties on said island.

We’ve upped our standards.
Up yours!


25 posted on 09/25/2018 2:27:33 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Sub-Driver

R’s should make this a nation campaign commercial.

Democrats have gone fascist.


26 posted on 09/25/2018 2:28:31 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Sub-Driver
Chuckie just needs a good cry.
27 posted on 09/25/2018 2:29:14 PM PDT by boycott
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Is this becoming a banana republic and Chucky is judge and jury to judge the judge?


29 posted on 09/25/2018 2:29:55 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Is this becoming a banana republic and Chucky is judge and jury to judge the judge?


30 posted on 09/25/2018 2:30:10 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: Sub-Driver
Al D’Amato and his vanishing constituents will rue the day he sang about 3 Little Pigs on the floor of Congress and opened the door to this greasy, corrupt, anti-American fraud.
31 posted on 09/25/2018 2:32:06 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Sub-Driver

But Ellison is presumed INNOCENT because he’s a Muslim Democrat


32 posted on 09/25/2018 2:32:31 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sub-Driver

Harvard Law turns out dummies.


33 posted on 09/25/2018 2:33:18 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Sub-Driver

I am just about to send off some “anonymous” letter to my senator with a copy to some trash newspaper, and mention that Schumer assaulted me years ago, and I insist on anonymity.


34 posted on 09/25/2018 2:33:44 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Sub-Driver

Talking all this crap and nothing about Trump’s UN speech


35 posted on 09/25/2018 2:34:19 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Sub-Driver
Chuck Schumer raped me in 1977.
36 posted on 09/25/2018 2:34:24 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Sub-Driver

So I can throw an accusation at schumer accusing him of molesting me when I was a teenager? I am so ready to accuse schumer and testify that at the age of 14 he tired to rape me... facts don’t matter, the hell with evidence or proof don’t either ..right? because in my mind HE IS GUILTY OF TRYING To RAPE A 14 yr old!!!


37 posted on 09/25/2018 2:36:01 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Sub-Driver

Schumer is an annoying hack, even to Democrats.


38 posted on 09/25/2018 2:37:09 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Sub-Driver

Buy more guns and ammo, now.


39 posted on 09/25/2018 2:37:23 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: Sub-Driver

Ahh, the petty tyrant speaks. A tyrant without effective power and dwindling influence. No wonder the lad is so angry.


40 posted on 09/25/2018 2:37:47 PM PDT by glennaro
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