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Schumer: We Should Delay Gorsuch Vote Because The FBI Is Investigating Trump
This is becoming embarrassing. Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that a vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, should be delayed until the FBI has concluded its investigation of the Trump campaign and its possible ties to Russia, an allegation that has yet to be substantiated by evidence (via The Hill):
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is urging Republicans to delay a vote on Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, because of an ongoing investigation into potential ties between Trump officials and Russia.
"It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency," the Senate's top Democrat said, echoing language used the day before by Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (Calif.).
Schumer's request, which is unlikely to gain traction with Republicans, comes as Gorsuch is into his second day before the Judiciary Committee. The committee is expected to vote on his nomination by April 3, with a full Senate vote following within days.
But the the New York Democrat argued that it was "the height of irony" that Republicans blocked then-President Obama from filling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Antonin Scalia's death in 2016 but are "now rushing" to confirm Gorsuch.
Schumer: We Should Delay Gorsuch Vote Because The FBI Is Investigating Trump
This is becoming embarrassing. Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that a vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, should be delayed until the FBI has concluded its investigation of the Trump campaign and its possible ties to Russia, an allegation that has yet to be substantiated by evidence (via The Hill):
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is urging Republicans to delay a vote on Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, because of an ongoing investigation into potential ties between Trump officials and Russia.
"It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency," the Senate's top Democrat said, echoing language used the day before by Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (Calif.).
Schumer's request, which is unlikely to gain traction with Republicans, comes as Gorsuch is into his second day before the Judiciary Committee. The committee is expected to vote on his nomination by April 3, with a full Senate vote following within days.
But the the New York Democrat argued that it was "the height of irony" that Republicans blocked then-President Obama from filling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Antonin Scalia's death in 2016 but are "now rushing" to confirm Gorsuch.
Schumer: We Should Delay Gorsuch Vote Because The FBI Is Investigating Trump
