AntiCom Wrote:
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> I agree with Chuckie Schumer:
>
> In 2016 Schumer told reporters, declaring that he
> never recommended that Senate Democrats
> categorically disregard any nomination during an
> election year, especially before a nomination was
> even made.
>
> “What I said in 2007 is, after a hearing, if
> senators felt that a nominee was out of the
> mainstream and wasn’t being forthright about it,
> they should vote no, and that’s still my
> position today,” Schumer said.
“That
> doesn’t reflect on whether there should be a
> hearing or vote.”
>
> Fellow Democrats have rallied to Schumer’s side,
> pointing out that he never said there shouldn’t
> be a hearing or vote on a selection in an election
> year.
>
> “The Republican attack on him shows they’re
> simply trying to distract and distort the issue
> here and continue to obstruct” Scalia's
> replacement, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal
> (D-Conn.), who serves on the Judiciary Committee
> with Schumer. “The point here is what Sen.
> Schumer said then [in his 2007 speech]
was in
> no way that the Senate should refuse to vote or
> reject a nominee sight unseen. He said, in effect,
> there should be a hearing, there should be a
> vote.”
>
> Blumenthal added: “The positions he took then
> and now are completely consistent. It’s only the
> Republican position to distort and distract —
> that is what they’re doing here.”
>
> Indeed, Schumer never explicitly said the process
> should not get moving, although neither did Senate
> Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in his
> surprisingly quick move to derail an Obama pick
> after the disclosure of Scalia’s death over the
> past weekend.
I agree with him also: