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Posted on 08/22/2018 8:48:30 AM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday said that the Senate Judiciary Committee should delay its confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of former President Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's guilty plea.
"It's a game changer. It should be. ... In my view, the Senate Judiciary Committee should immediately pause the consideration of the Kavanaugh nomination," Schumer said from the Senate floor.
He added that he thought Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, had scheduled Kavanaugh's hearing "too soon" and he believed it should be delayed.
Kavanaugh's hearing is scheduled to begin Sept. 4. Republicans have given no indication they are open to delaying the hearing.
But Democrats are demanding that it be delayed after Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance law violations.
Lanny Davis, Cohen's lawyer, has said that Cohen's decision implicates the president of wrongdoing.
"Very clearly, there is no dispute that Donald Trump committed a crime," he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe". "No dispute, because his own lawyers said to the special counsel in a letter that he directed, that's the word they used, Michael Cohen to make these payments.
Democrats have raised concerns that Kavanaugh has a broad view on executive authority and would try to protect Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Schumer told reporters on Tuesday that Kavanaugh would not say in their meeting if he believed a president could be subpoenaed.
He added on Wednesday that his answer combined with Cohen's plea makes Kavanaugh's nomination a "danger."
"At the very least, the very least, it is unseemly for the president of the United States to be picking a Supreme Court justice who could soon be effectively a juror in a case involving the president himself," Schumer said.
Several Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, which Schumer is not a member of, have also called for Kavanaugh's hearings to be delayed.
I can smell the stench of desperation on you, Chuckie.
Schumer is so dumb.
Schumer is so dumb.
The established Republicans and Democrats ought to do this Republic a great favor and take their ill-gotten gains and fade into the sunset.
LOL. Their strategy doesn’t even qualify as 2-D chess.
I keep wondering if the delays are also due somehow to McCain being unable to be physically present for a vote - either because he’s already dead or extremely weak.
But I know Upchuck has his own reasons for the delay, namely, to see how the mid terms pan out.
Schumer knows what he's saying is nonsense and not going to happen, he's just putting out stuff for the mindless base to quaff up.
Even if Trump actually did what they say, it wouldn’t be cause to delay.
They supported Hillary, a candidate that they knew committed crimes. Many crimes that actually affected national security.
Chuck Schumer needs to be evaluated for his mental fitness and capacity to remain in office.
In fact, for his own well-being he needs to have all sharp objects removed from his possession, and to have a nanny assigned to watch over him to make sure that he doesn’t damage anything when he throws his food from his high-chair table, or when he knocks over his little sippy cup.
Worth repeating...
He knows there is nothing he can do....................
I have a hunch McCain is deteriorating fast, his family hasn’t even been releasing statements that I’ve seen.
Nope
Just more confirmation of the fact that Chuck Schumer is no friend of those of us who cherish the achievements of America’s founders. He never misses an opportunity to undermine our traditional values.
Schmucky’s head is so far up his own rectum his brains are gone for lack of oxygen.
Why? Hey Schmuckey. WTF does Cohen have to do with Supreme Court Justices? YOU need to knock of the drugs, sonny. You’re acting like a moron.
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LOL.
really because i smell a coordinated coupe against POTUS that is timed perfectly and that my friend is interference in an election.
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