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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Chuck Schumer molested my dog - he’s got to prove he didn’t....
And just to think these EVIL MFKERS are going to win back the house!!! UGH!!
Gloves off—enough of this garbage. I am ready to wage war CW2—
It is time for President Trump to order the release of the CIA file on Schummer, about his sexual statutory rape relationship with his daughters 13 year old friend that resulted in her first, at his insistence abortion and then her second at age 15 that resulted in her committing suicide.
I would find you not guilty, even if you confessed!
Mrs. Taxman just asked me “How many women Schumer has abused.”
My answer was “Every woman in America, just by his being a LIEberal Democrat US Senator!”
She cannot recall any of the basic facts about that night. Her AA sponsor and psycho-therapist seem to agree on the basic facts that she is Deborah Norville Blacked Out most of the time.
Her inability to recall salient facts, as well her baked up fictions are expected outcomes of her conditon
Schumer should move to a communist country then
I vote to put Schmucky and a “hungry” boa constrictor on a 8x8 dirt mound in the middle of a pond of flesh eating piranha’s.
Hey Schumer. This is America not Russia and you are a traitor who flat-out refuses to abide by the constitution.
At the very least he’s honest. Too many on our side just don’t want to believe it, but they do.
If it is not a legal process, then why bother with oaths, Chuck?
Buttholes are life saving and perform an important function. Schumer, not so much.
It certainly is a legal process, but not a trial. Fact finding? Let’s do some of that, Chuck.
If testimony is taken under oath, it’s a legal proceeding, no matter where it takes place.
Wait...didn’t Schumer graduate from Harvard Law School?
Why yes...yes he did.
But hey, what’s the bedrock foundational legal principle America was founded on compared with the raw, naked pursuit of power?
Schumer proves conclusively that he is a democrat!
ML/NJ
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