Posted on 11/21/2016 7:29:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned Sunday that Democrats would filibuster Donald Trump's Supreme Court candidates if they are not "mainstream."
"If he doesn't nominate a mainstream candidate, we're going to go at him with everything we've got ... Because this is so, so important," Schumer said on NBC's "Meet the Press." While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had suggested doing away with the filibuster, Schumer said Republicans "don't come with clean hands, having delayed Merrick Garland for a whole year."
President Obama nominated Garland to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia, but the Republican Senate blocked the nomination in hopes that a Republican would win the White House.
When Trump takes office in January, he will almost certainly appoint a conservative nominee to fill the vacancy.
Time to go full nuclear.
I’d be disappointed if they didn’t.
Nothing says conservative more than that.
The Voters just told Schumer and his Dems to stuff their Mainstream
Trump will be judged solely on his results... Not on how genteel he is to others politicians. Nuke ‘em!
Wat you got, Chuckie? Your rules-change chickens are about to come home to roost.
Wikileaks and Anonymous files would be helpful for some of the Congressional vermin, ya think?
Hey Schmuckie ... you dont get to define ‘mainstream’ ... the winner of the election does.
I really despise Schumer, what an ass he is.
“Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be safe” - Ripley.
Time to go nuclear.
We won.
Just for laughs, I’d like to see a list of people Chuck Schumer would consider “mainstream” candidates for the supreme court.
Turtle face will fold!
Shut up Chuck and watch the mushroom cloud suddenly appear. You have no power.
Fourth-year noms are passé.
Didn’t Harry Reid change senate rules in 2011 to do away with the filibuster?
Sorry Chucky, go talk to Harry about your filibuster.
Mainstream? The only SC candidates Chuck-Chuck bo-buck
recognizes are from the septic tank stream.
Ass, short for Dem donkey.
Good gawd, I hate that pompous, smug, elitist MF’er. I’d love to slam his big fat snoze into a wall. Nuke the dems!
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