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.
Oh man - sorry!
I didn’t mean any disrespect...
Last I checked, the DOW was down a whole 30 points.
I’d like to hear the connection between tax evasion a decade ago and an open Supreme Court seat today.
Good Luck Chuck
NUKE Kavanaugh in. Call it “The Reid Option”.
Let Chuck Schumer enjoy that. “Elections have consequences”, was it, Chuck?
Been pretty quiet. Hope it stays that way.
He’s done enough damage to the country over the years.
That was from bambam but I’d lay odds Chuckie backed him 100%.
Oh yes I know. I’m sure Chuckie loved it when the Kenyan Usurper said it.
Nuke in Kavanaugh and the court is set on a nice course and there’s nothing they can do about it. If Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg gets replaced under President Trump the liberals will be raging in the streets.
“If Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg gets replaced under President Trump the liberals will be raging in the streets.”
Amen...That day can’t come soon enough.
Look at the phony show they’re putting on for Kavanaugh, they’ll go bat guano crazy over Buzzi.
This crap is not helping the Demons who are totally tone deaf about the voice of the American people. And the Goebbelsmedia has lost its panache in the eyes of the American people.
It is a huge fail and Trump is kicking ass and showing exactly what the “Deep State” is to millions of former skeptics. Who could have believed the CIA and FBI would conspire to overthrow the government?
And the Demons keep stepping in it on a daily basis.
Sad and concerned Chuckie face makes me laugh.
Mitch has done a fine job despite the Demons obstructions.
He most certainly doesn't but they will grasp at anything to start the next smear campaign. Was this the agreed upon "big deal" for the coming week?
Schumer makes the pretext for Mueller’s farce transparent.
That’s why I put :) at the end of my remark. My FReeper name is a joke.
Since US school systems haven’t really taught American history for a long time most millennials don’t even know what the Constitution means. A lot of them even think socialism is better than capitalism in spite of what has unfolded in Venezuela. What you suggest is right but that probably can’t be done without them.
CNN should also have said "alleged illegal payments," as that hasn't been determined either.
Even if Trump did direct Cohen to make the payment, that in itself wasn't illegal as CNN is suggesting, the argument goes.
-PJ
They supported Hillary, a candidate that they knew committed crimes. Many crimes that actually affected national security.
Donald Trump did NOTHING illegal!Agreed. However, given the crimes we know and the Democrats knew that Hillary, Bill, and Barak are on the hook for, after nominating Hillary the Democrats are estopped from even raising the question. At all.Beyond that, Trump promised the public that he would nominate SCOTUS justices from a list including Judge Cavanaugh. The Dems love to claim that Republican nominees to SCOTUS are out of the mainstream - but when Trump gave them a list of about twenty targets for them to point out extremity in any one of them, the Democrats just left the bat on their shoulders and were stunned when the electorate cried, Strike Three - You're Out!
The Democrats defaulted on any standing to define mainstream.
You’re exactly right, thanks.
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