Schumer Floor Remarks On Republicans’ Refusal To Request Judge Kavanaugh’s Full Record And Judicial Nominee Judge Britt Grant’s Extreme Legal Positions
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Schumer Floor Remarks On Republicans' Refusal To Request
Mr. President, on Friday, Chairman of the
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My Republican colleagues know that this was wrong, that's why they sent it so late on a Friday, hoping to bury it. This letter makes it clear that
So the question looms: What are they hiding" What are they afraid of" Why wouldn't they normally grant the kind of openness to records that America prides itself on" Why wouldn't they grant a request for openness of records when we are going to vote on someone who will have huge power over the lives of average Americans for a whole generation" Why shouldn't we see what that record is about before we vote?
In this letter,
There is just no good reason to argue that
What are they hiding?
Worse yet, here's what we learned Friday. Amazing. The documents we are going to receive are being screened by a partisan lawyer with ties to
My Republican friends are checking all the boxes on the obstruction list - hiding documents and collaborating with political operative lawyers, and then causing the process to slow down so there is as little time for the American people to review the documents as possible. A bipartisan letter should have been sent two weeks ago. When
I hope my colleagues will bring these political games to an end for the sake of our country, for the sake of comity, for the sake of bipartisanship. Our Republican friends talk a game of bipartisanship but never seem to act it out. And they invoke a double standard: what was good for them when they were in the minority is not good for us now that we're in the minority. The
Now on
As Solicitor General of
So from reproductive rights to civil rights to gun safety, name a partisan legal case from the past five years, and there's a good chance
I'd also like to bring to my colleague's attention that, in speeches and handwritten notes, even with this extreme record,
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Whether you're Democrat or Republican or Independent, you should want a better process for choosing judges. The American people deserve judges from the legal mainstream; who will interpret the law rather than make it; who will respect and defer to precedent unless there's a darn good reason not to. Not just folks picked off of some list pre-vetted by extreme conservative groups that don't represent what a majority of Americans think and probably don't even represent what a majority of
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