Schumer Prepared to Hold Supreme Court Seat Open

Roll Call ^ | Jan 3, 2017 | Bridget Bowman

[detective]

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is preparing to block President-elect Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee if he or she is not in the “mainstream.”

“It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump would choose that would get Republican support that we could support,” the New York Democrat told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday night.

Asked if he would do his best to hold the seat open, Schumer responded, “Absolutely.”

[jpsb]

Not true, Supremes need 60 votes to pass.

[Eleutheria5]

Chucky can’t make mud out of sand. Fillibuster? Hmph. Strom Thurmond knew how to fillibuster. No breaks for lunch, no going home, just non-stop energizer-bunny fillibustering.

[Psalm 144]

Something tells me that Schumer is going to end up as a greasy spot under Trump’s shoe.

[Tunehead54]

Please explain. The Senate makes its own rules. The Dems went nuclear on all but SCOTUS appointments. Passed their rules with a 50+1 vote. So what is the reason the Pubs can’t go nuclear across the board? There is no mention of the filibuster in the Constitution. It is just a Senate rule.

[null and void]

FOAD Chuckie.

[henkster]

For the past several months, the SCOTUSblog website ran a daily calendar of the number of days that the Senate had not acted on the Merrick Garland nomination. It will be interesting to see if they run a count on the number of days that the Senate democrat minority filibusters a Trump nomination.

I for one will be making comments to that effect on their site if they do not do so. Sauce for the gander.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Schmucky apparently is unaware the filibuster rule has gone bye bye.

[super7man]

I’m thinkin’ Chuckie doesn’t quite know yet, who he is up against here.

[Flint]

The Republicans control the House and Senate. All that needs to happen is the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader in the Senate declare that Congress is in recess on 21Jan. Say they do that at 12:00 noon, and say they will be in recess until 4:00PM.

President Trump then could appoint anyone he wishes to any position he wishes. Then call all of the EMS units in DC to show up at the Capitol Building to haul off all the Democrats that have stroked out, had heart attacks or just plain go nuts in general.

[peeps36]

We need to give president Trump a super majority so he can laugh at the rats.

[Ouderkirk]

Schumer...YOU are out of the mainstream.

The results of the election on Nov 8 has demonstrated this as fact.

[sport]

The Senate sets its on rules for the session. They can make a no filibuster rule. Just as sure that I am that if the Democrats were in the majority, but did not have the numbers to break a filibuster, they would enact a no filibuster rule. I have the same confidence that the Republicans will enact a filibuster rule. But the Democrats have John McCain, his girlfriend Lindsey [Linda] Graham, Jeff Flake, etal masquerading as Republicans. Breaking their cover as needed from time to time.

[VRWC For Truth]

Pissin into the wind..got your umbrella Schmuckie?...

[Sgt_Schultze]

For goodness sake, the 60 vote cloture is there to squash a filibuster. Simply make Schumer filibuster. He cannot hold the floor forever. When he runs out of gas, carry on with business.

[Ancesthntr]

Do it, Chuckie - then you and your fellow Demonrats will lose BIGLY in 2018. You’ll be down to under 40 seats.

Keep up the good work!

[Starboard]

Exactly right. They changed the rules and it backfired against them, just like Republicans warned them it would.

[Nuc 1.1]

Trump will be knifed in the back by McCain and Graham. Just like they did to Bush and Bill Frist, with the Gang of Fourteen. If a Gang of Fourteen movement develops, and I am certain it will if the nuclear option will put Trump's nominee on the bench, then Trump should treat them as Lincoln treated the Copperheads. No mercy.

[HamiltonJay]

I think the supreme court still has filibuster, but I could be wrong... I know the cabinet appointees do not

[Mr Rogers]

If democrats plan to block Supreme Court nominations for 4 years...then nuke ‘em!

[RKV]

Impeach Ginzberg for violation of code of judicial ethics for her partisan comments on Trump.

Canon 5: A Judge Should Refrain from Political Activity

(A) General Prohibitions. A judge should not:
...
(2) make speeches for a political organization or candidate, or publicly endorse or oppose a candidate for public office

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ginsburg-expresses-regret-over-remarks-criticizing-trump/2016/07/14/f53687bc-49cc-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?utm_term=.aa018c84d26b

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges#f