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.
Guess they didn’t get the memo on straws yet. Then again, we know the rules don’t apply to “them” anyway.
On what grounds, ChuckU?
That Dems are back at their old game of finding a crime, after seeing the POTUS?
No sale, and still Chuck U Schmuckie.
Two words: Pound Sand.
He's given up the ghost writer.
Is there anyone with an IQ over 40 who believes Trump’s legal team would have admitted in writing that Trump directed Cohen to make those payments if there was any exposure to criminal charges? LMAO.
Politics above country, business as usual.
I suspect non approved drug therapy in Mexico or he’s dead and has been for quite some time
I don’t think this is desperation so much as a choreographed play designed to energize the rabid left wing Democrat base.
Trump can’t play defense here, he needs to be on offense - declassify and release the DOJ/FBI documents. Make them public now. The American legal system is stacked against him and he needs to hit them - by taking out the seat of their power, the DOJ - with a kill shot. He can’t let this - the shouting that he committed a crime - drag on and become the over-arching narrative. They are out to kill him, he’s got to take them out first.
More like Chutes & Ladders.
Bill Clinton nominated and got confirmed two SCOTUS judges while under an investigation that actually led to impeachment.
I suspect non approved drug therapy in Mexico or he’s dead and has been for quite some time
Or, Israel....like Jimmeh Carter?
Chuck U doesn’t run the Senate.
Mitch does that...sometimes.
5.56mm
Wow. I never saw that coming. /sar
Yep, I smell that too.
In fact, there are lots of stinky things just over the horizon.
Time is NOT your friend, fiend.
You seem to have forgotten that....
Chuckles doesn’t get to decide.
Suck it Chuck
Cohen was coerced into pleading guilty to a non-crime. That’s all the more reason for the nomination to go through, just to stop such politicized peresecutorial abominations in the future.
Chuckles is tenancious, I’ll give him that. He is also a sleestack, which is cool.
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