Posted on 03/21/2017 2:44:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON ― Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants the Senate to delay a vote on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick as long as Trump’s campaign remains under investigation by the FBI.
Democrats have struggled to come up with a cohesive strategy on how to handle the vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch, whom Trump picked in January to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat on the high court.
On Monday, FBI Director James Comey confirmed in his testimony to Congress that his agency is investigating ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
“There is a cloud now hanging over the head of the president, and while that’s happening, to have a lifetime appointment made by this president seems very unseemly and there ought to be a delay,” Schumer told reporters on Tuesday.
The only reason Gorsuch has a chance to win confirmation now is because Republicans refused to even hold a hearing for President Barack Obama’s nominee after Scalia died in February more than a year ago. Obama’s pick, Merrick Garland, went through all the motions of meeting senators, but Republicans refused to consider him because Obama was going to leave office in a little less than a year.
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Mitch McConnell’s call.
Gorsuchbwill get a vote.
I’ve noticed this is the meme from liberals on Facebook. Since Trump is an “illegal” president, he should not be able to put up a Supreme Court Justice. These people are undermining our system of government more than any imagined Russian alleged interference.
ConservaTeen: ‘Chuckie should STFU.’ Chuckle, what the F is the FBI investigating Trump for? You need to be impeach along with 99% of Dems in DC.
If the rumors have any validity, Chucky’s been on the Epstein Express...
Right and Hillary shouldn’t have run for president because she was under investigation by the FBI. Schumer is just being a dolt.
I am pretty sure I just saw Comey testify that he could not comment on whether there was an ongoing investigation of anyone. He also said that an individual could attend a classified meeting then come out and tell an absolute lie about wha was said and that would not be a crime because they revealed no secret, he further said that he could not say that what the guy said didn't happen because that would reveal secret information.
That in effect means that someone could come out of a secret meeting and have a press conference and say we talked about GW having raped that 6 year old girl, very sad story. If Comey is asked is that true? He will say I can't comment on that.
How cool is that?
If you ask Comey did you make that evidence up? He would merely reply, I can't comment on an ongoing investigation. A tactic that the late Janet Reno invented. She opened more investigations than I can count, didn't solve any of them though.
To bad the cowardly republicans haven’t yet learned how to play the game. The rats are ruthless. Stupid republicans should gin up some investigations of their own.
The fraud Schumer needs to be investigated for his financial ties to the Nazi pig Soros.
Barry, the non natural born Citizen usurper nominated and got seated the wise latina and the butch.
would Chuck be saying this had the election had a different outcome?
But Hillary running for Prezzy while under investigation was no problem. Why does anyone even listen to this partisan clown ?
amen to that!
scumbag alert!
That’s a man, baby!
You have to remember that he was a US Attorney, like Pr*ck Bwahaha. 😀
Said the seditious gasbag who couldn't see the multiple felonies that Big Bill Clinton committed during the impeachment trial.
If the machinations of you and your Uniparty colleague thugs in DC succeed, Choomer - we the Deplorables won't be bothering with any elections in the future. 😀
These top Dem officials need to be called out and NOW for their absurd public comments.
Trump must be waiting for certain people to be in place. Schumer and Pelosi are off their rockers. First they ask for Sessions to resign, now publicly stating President Trump is under investigation????
They need to be called out NOW. They are lying and over the top as the ranking member of both the House and the Senate.
Their BRAZEN attitude needs to be shunned and ridiculed. This behavior against a sitting President is SHOCKING.
Obama's people remain in the DOJ, FBI and throughout government, and are clinging onto this idiotic Russian connection to try and oust Trump. Congress isn't helping Trump one bit because they're mostly corrupt too. It's one big mess.
It's actually kind of cute, like watching a six-year-old trying "machinations" to get his/her little way in some matter:
"We'll just get rid of Trump, and things will go back to normal in the DC swamp."
"Next election, things will be just as they always were before that jerk showed up."
Except for the part where there won't be a "next election", only "inadvertent term limits"...
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