Schumer says 'nothing is off the table next year' if GOP pushes through Supreme Court nominee: Report

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Schumer says 'nothing is off the table next year' if GOP pushes through Supreme Court nominee: Report

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told his colleagues that "nothing is off the table next year" if Republicans push through a nominee for the Supreme Court in the next several weeks.
© Provided by Washington Examiner A source told Axios about the comment made to congressional Democrats on a conference call on Saturday, and other outlets have confirmed it.

After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday night, the fight over whether or not her seat would be filled before the inauguration began immediately.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate will vote on President Trump’s nominee, if he is to put one up. In a tweet on Saturday, Trump indicated that he would nominate a replacement for the late justice soon.
Schumer, a New York Democrat, made a similar comment to reporters in July 2019, saying if Democrats retook control of the Senate in 2016, nothing would be "off the table."
Some liberals have suggested that if Republicans replace Ginsburg before the inauguration and if they retake control of both chambers of Congress, Democrats should expand the size of the Supreme Court.
"If Sen. McConnell and @SenateGOP were to force through a nominee during the lame duck session—before a new Senate and President can take office—then the incoming Senate should immediately move to expand the Supreme Court," Rep. Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, tweeted on Saturday.
Sen. Ed Markey wrote on Twitter, "Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court."
It remains unclear if Schumer's comment on Saturday was in reference to such a proposal.








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If Sen. McConnell and @SenateGOP were to force through a nominee during the lame duck session—before a new Senate and President can take office—then the incoming Senate should immediately move to expand the Supreme Court.


'nadler'. and the DPST leadership should hold their threats - they have already made clear what they will do with a majority in the house, senate, and POTUS - they will pack the SC to establish radical judge legislation in the SC - and rip apart the checks and balances of the Constitution that prevents the racist ,marxist DPST's from full power as a dictatorial, totalitarian government Uber alles. They hate our Constitution and representative democracy as they hate Trump - and are doing their damndest to burn down the country to establish DPST control.

And regardless whether another SC judge is nominated - the DPST pseudo-impeachment circus is already putting up their three rings for the clowns to scream and yell for the LSM to pontificate - by clowns like Don Lemon.

DPST's have already made clear they will pack the SC at the first opportunity - and destroy America. What trump does now has no bearing on 2021 if they take power.

Believe nadler - they will Do it - Regardless.


Get ready - if they win - for Big Brother Comrade Xi - so beloved of ts, 9500, and the rest of the DPST 's. Biden is in bed with the Chinese to the reported tune of 1.5Billion dollars - they own him and harris as well, and the party.

The dimretards want to expand the Supreme Court to their advantage anyways.
Push the nomination and vote ASAP!
Fuck asschumer.
They tried this shit 4 yrs ago and were denied! Just poor sports!

Nothing is 'sporting' about the DPST push for marxist domination of america - they will use any advantage - including our Freedoms - against us - in their push for total dictatorial control of America.

Nothing is off the table anyways regardless of what happens. LOL. The irony would be if it was McConnell who ended up getting rid of the filibuster, so a vote on a SCOTUS justice could happen before election day.

Schumer says 'nothing is off the table next year' ...

... except Schumer!

Schumer says 'nothing is off the table next year' ...

... except Schumer!

Schumer says 'nothing is off the table next year' ...

... except Schumer!

There is no "filibuster" .... for the nomination.

this is nothing new. FDR wanted to expand the court over his New Deal. seems the court overruled some what was in it and that pouty effete snob didn't like it. he appears to be correct in that there is no defined number of justices so Congress could expand the court. if the bill to do so passes of course. it holds that if this is done via a bill then the president could veto it this throwing it back to Congress to override it.



doing a quick googie search i see nothing about expelling a justice. obviously a member of Congress can be expelled, the house or senate but it appears a justice cannot. i saw something in the news about some democrats wanting to do this. seems they can't. but when did that ever stop the DemonRats?

lol. what a load of shit this article is.

"Adding another Trump nominee under disputed circumstances could throw any good faith the Supreme Court has built into question and cause the American public to view the judiciary branch as even more of a partisan tool."

disputed how exactly? let's see ...

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump...020921781.html


Compared to the other two branches of government, the American public’s faith in the Supreme Court is relatively high. But the reputation of the nation’s high court could change in an instant if a highly polarizing president moves to fill a third spot on the bench less than two months before the 2020 election.


The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday instantly raises the stakes of the presidential race. It could also send the third branch of the U.S. government spiraling even further toward a legitimacy crisis.


Polls last year found that the Supreme Court has mostly positive public support. About 68% of Americans think it will act in the public’s best interest, while a majority approve of the job the court does. Half of the country considered the court moderate. Most of the American public views the court not as individual jurists but as a collective.


Adding another Trump nominee under disputed circumstances could throw any good faith the Supreme Court has built into question and cause the American public to view the judiciary branch as even more of a partisan tool.


Trump, despite winning the Electoral College in 2016, lost the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes. Two of his Supreme Court nominees have been confirmed by the Senate, the legislative body that has been called “Affirmative Action for White People” and “America’s Most Structurally Racist Institution.” The Democratic-controlled House, which more accurately reflects the will of the American people, doesn’t have any say in the process.


ah yes. the popular vote argument again. can't stop beating that dead horse can they?


"Affirmative Action for White People". interesting. "America's Most Structurally Racist Institution". if they say so.

but Congress is the very bastion of diversity! apparently whoever wrote this was too lazy to do a googly search!


https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/08/for-the-fifth-time-in-a-row-the-new-congress-is-the-most-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-ever/

For the fifth time in a row, the new Congress is the most racially and ethnically diverse ever

maybe so .. however from the same article ..




Race
The freshman class includes at least 23 people of color, bringing minority representation in Congress to about 22 percent. All newly elected people of color are members of the House, with all the newly elected senators being white.


Over a third of incoming House Democrats identify as people of color, though just 2 percent of incoming House Republicans do.


Overall, 55 black members will serve in the 116th Congress, comprising slightly more than 10 percent of the legislature, and 44 lawmakers in the new class are Hispanic or Latino.


Four Native Americans will serve, including Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas and Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, the first Native American women in Congress.

So .. 22 percent of members is enough for this author to claim Congress is representative of the people? but the Senate is a bunch of white racists? isn't such a statement racist in itself? bahhaaaa


Ginsburg’s dying wish was that she “not be replaced until a new president is installed,” according to NPR. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) quickly indicated he’d ignore that wish, issuing a statement hours after her death was announced indicating that Trump’s nominee “will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”


Sorry Ruthie. it doesn't work that way. i wonder did she also put that in her will?

The precise timing of the process, whether the vote will take place before the election or between the election and the next inauguration, is unclear.


Many Democrats already consider Neil Gorsuch’s position on the court a “stolen” seat. Justice Antonin Scalia died nearly eight months before the 2016 election, but McConnell refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace him.


If Trump wins the election in November and Republicans maintain control of the Senate, the whole thing will be a wash. But if he loses, or if the Senate swings to Democrats, more than half the country will see it as an illegitimate institution. If Democrats see the deeply partisan process as fundamentally unfair, it could set off an arms race to pack the court in an attempt to rectify what they see as a corrupt process. And the Supreme Court’s reputation may be permanently, and irreversibly, altered.


interesting that there is no citation for the author? could just be a typo/bad posting. or maybe Yahoo now goes by anonymous writers .. like the Atlantic and its anonymous sources claiming Trump disrespected the Military?

The Dim aren't putting anything on the table. They are untrustable. Don't deal with liars. This is a huge opportunity to for Trump, the Republican party and national Republicans.

All Trump has to do is nominate a moderate or conservative leaning woman. That's it. Game over.

Biden wouldn't even release his list of SCOTUS nominees as of yesterday.

The Dim aren't putting anything on the table. They are untrustable. Don't deal with liars. This is a huge opportunity to for Trump, the Republican party and national Republicans.

All Trump has to do is nominate a moderate or conservative leaning woman. That's it. Game over.

Biden wouldn't even release his list of SCOTUS nominees as of yesterday. Originally Posted by gnadfly

If Trump really wants to piss the Liberals off he should nominate Jeannine Pirro, lol.

That would be fun to watch the 'splody heads sploding" - but likely not successful in the Senate.
Unfortunately.

this is nothing new. FDR wanted to expand the court over his New Deal. seems the court overruled some what was in it and that pouty effete snob didn't like it. he appears to be correct in that there is no defined number of justices so Congress could expand the court. if the bill to do so passes of course. it holds that if this is done via a bill then the president could veto it this throwing it back to Congress to override it.



doing a quick googie search i see nothing about expelling a justice. obviously a member of Congress can be expelled, the house or senate but it appears a justice cannot. i saw something in the news about some democrats wanting to do this. seems they can't. but when did that ever stop the DemonRats? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

Same as POTUS - SC justice's are subject to House impeachment and Senate Trial.

Same as POTUS - SC justice's are subject to House impeachment and Senate Trial. Originally Posted by oeb11

okay. i didn't make a big search of it but that sounds reasonable given the whole checks and balances thingy. while federal judges have been removed far as i know no supreme court justice has ever been removed and since Ruthie was a darling of the liberal left and the Dems control Congress you'd never have the votes to get it to the Senate.



and to be fair to Ruthie on what grounds? so she was a liberal. that's an ideology not an impeachable offense. of course impeaching Trump was purely political.

Back to original topic - Schumer is threatening about what will happen 'when Biden wins' - to pack the SC with radicals.

Anyone that thinks for a moment that if Trump folds - and does not nominate a justice - that Schumer will hold off - is a certifiable insane idiot.



The DPST's see the SC as the barrier to their control of government and the peoples. They have no use for 'limited government' per the Constitution in their racist, marxist ideology. They will make every effort to pack the SC with radicals to forward their Marxist agenda - at the first opportunity - which is the next time the DPST's have a Senate majority and POTUS.



This election - is for the existence of representative democracy in America - Schumer and the DPST's plan to destroy the Constitution and life and freedom as we all know it.

DPST's are motivated only by their lust and desire for complete and total control and power over the peoples of America. .

They are the exact opposite of the limited government - with power retained by the people of America - as defined by Madison and the Founders of our Country.