Posted on 04/02/2017 7:43:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Schumer is the filibuster king. As a freshman Democrat from New York, he broke what he called a taboo to say the Senate publicly should make ideology a factor in confirming judges. He vowed to oppose any nominee for confirmation by President G.W. Bush.
Never has any party used the filibuster anytime in our nation’s history like Schumer. Before Schumer, it was a rarity for a nominee to the Supreme Court to be held up with a filibuster. Even the contentious nomination of Clarence Thomas was confirmed with a simple vote.
Schumer joined then-Sen. Barack Obama in voting against cloture on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. In 2003, Schumer accused Bushs nominee to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Charles Pickering, of opposing civil rights. The Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2002 voted 10-9 to block the nomination, when the Senate was under Democratic control. Bush renominated Pickering in January 2003 after Republicans recaptured the Senate, but Democrats, with Schumer’s leadership, filibustered the nomination.
Schumer also led the charge against the confirmation of Miguel Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He did everything in his power to deny Estrada a simple up-or-down vote on the floor of the Senate a vote that would have confirmed Estrada with bipartisan support. Seven cloture votes were filed on the Estrada nomination. Schumer voted against cloture each time. After nearly two-and-a-half years after Estrada was first nominated to the D.C. Estrada withdrew his name from consideration.
Eight other conservative court of appeals nominees were also filibustered. These 8 were Priscilla Owen, Carolyn Kuhl, David W. McKeague, Henry Saad, Richard Allen Griffin, William H. Pryor, William Gerry Myers III and Janice Rogers Brown.[
This is how Schumer blocks confirmations to uphold his ideological litmus test.
How about you go #### yourself.
Drop the nuke.
Do YOUR job. The President nominates, the Senate confirms. Go take a civics lesson.
Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie,
get your head out your ass there fool.
How about Democrats give up their American citizenship and move to Venezuela...
Demoncraps fight to win. The GOP rushes to surrender. I would love to corner the white flag market, maybe open a shop near The Hill. I'd be a millionaire in no time. "Oh, hey Mr. Ryan, I see you're back again. Well, the special of the day is for every purchase of two white flags, you also get this yellow stripe for the back of your suite jacket. it's iron on!"
Don’t blame Upstate, folks. We didn’t vote for this wanker.
Sen. Schumer on Gorsuch nominee: “When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules you should change the nominee.” pic.twitter.com/1QmmZZSkcT
Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) April 2, 2017
The problem with that is we already KNOW that you will never pass through ANY candidate that President Trump puts up. The whole goal of the DNC/MSM is to destroy the Trump Presidency before it even get started.
Can you imagine the belly laughs and bwahahas if the roles were reversed?
If Mitch McConnell had said to Harry Reid, “How about instead of nuking the filibuster, you let Republicans help choose SCOTUS nominee?”
Schumer’s statement is just plain stupid.
I want the Rats to filibuster Neil. Then turtle can do away with it once and for all. Doing away with the SCOTUS filibuster only hurts Rats, as they cannot be bi-partisan, whereas the GOPe votes for all Rat SCOTUS nominees - like the two lesbos Clinton nominated each of whom were completely unqualified.
Bottom line is, Rats always get their selections, GOP does not - so get rid of the SCOTUS filibuster and that way GOP will at least get a few more approved than with filibuster.
How about NOT....
Remember, Schumer and 10 other SITTING Dems confirmed Gorsuch a few years back.
Tidbit...Scalia was confirmed 98-0.
I know, right? Do these asshats realize they LOST on November 8th?
Even moreso, do the Repubs even realize they WON?
I hate our government
Is that brunette behind the blonde, Gina Gershon at a younger age than she is now? What movie is that from?
Pretty in Pink...
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