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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 03:20 PM Sep 2020

Schumer says McConnell has 'defiled' the Senate over Supreme Court vacancies

'may very well destroy it'

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, saying the majority leader has “defiled” the Senate over Supreme Court vacancies and “may very well destroy it.”

During remarks on the Senate floor, Schumer, D-N.Y., blasted President Trump and McConnell, R-Ky., for pushing to fill the vacancy on the high court left by late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 presidential election.

“You would think that after the Republican majority led a historic blockade just four years ago to keep open a vacancy on the Supreme Court because it was an election year, they would have the honor and decency to apply their own rule when the same scenario came around again,” Schumer said Tuesday. “You’d expect this Senate majority to follow their own rule.”

“What’s fair is fair. This is what Leader McConnell said in 2016. The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice,” he continued. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/schumer-says-mcconnell-has-defiled-the-senate-over-supreme-court-vacancies-may-very-well-destroy-it/ar-BB19jfYX?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

You think.....they would have the honor and decency to apply their own rule.


They're Republicans they have neither.
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Schumer says McConnell has 'defiled' the Senate over Supreme Court vacancies (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
One good court packing deserves another...no more high road sh*t Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #1
Yup, no more Mr. Nice Guy. lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #4
Ouch! superpatriotman Sep 2020 #2
Ok Schumer other than harsh language what is your gameplan to fix this. Statistical Sep 2020 #3
Harsh? ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #8
This is only one of many ways in which Moscow... 3catwoman3 Sep 2020 #5
Schumer's speeches mean nothing to the republicans. We have to learn how to fight BComplex Sep 2020 #6
the republican party has lost face ... .. Iliyah Sep 2020 #7

Statistical

(19,264 posts)
3. Ok Schumer other than harsh language what is your gameplan to fix this.
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 03:30 PM
Sep 2020

Mitch is a piece of garbage - ok (we have known this for a decade or more now)
He did that crap in 2016 -ok
He did this crap now - ok

What are we going to do about it?

ProfessorGAC

(64,427 posts)
8. Harsh?
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 04:38 PM
Sep 2020

What you posted is much harsher, and totally accurate.
Chuck needs to realize there are no rules in this fight.
He should have called McConnell a lying punk.
Mince no words. I'd bet there is a sizeable percentage of typical folks who don't know what "defiled" means.
They need to, as you did, use blunt language and attack far more aggressively.

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
5. This is only one of many ways in which Moscow...
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 03:40 PM
Sep 2020

...Mitch has defiled the Senate.

He is as despicable as Trump.

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