Schumer: Democrats Will Insist On 60 Votes For Trump’s SCOTUS Pick

On Tuesday night, shortly after Donald Trump announced his pick to fill the stolen Supreme Court seat vacated by Antonin Scalia, the Senate Minority Leader declared statement that his members would insist on a 60 votes hurdle.

Donald Trump is able to make a Supreme Court nomination because Senate Republicans stole the vacant seat from President Obama and his pick Merrick Garland.

Progressives are demanded that Democrats do everything they can to prevent the stolen Supreme Court seat to be filled by a radical conservative.

And now Senator Schumer has announced that Democrats will do just that.

“The Senate must insist upon 60 votes for any Supreme Court nominee, a bar that was met by each of President Obama’s nominees,” Schumer said in the statement. “The burden is on Judge Neil Gorsuch to prove himself to be within the legal mainstream and, in this new era, willing to vigorously defend the Constitution from abuses of the executive branch.”

Schumer went on to say, “Given his record, I have very serious doubts about Judge Gorsuch’s ability to meet this standard. Judge Gorsuch has repeatedly sided with corporations over working people, demonstrated a hostility toward women’s rights, and most troubling, hewed to an ideological approach to jurisprudence that makes me skeptical that he can be a strong, independent justice on the court.”

Schumer’s statement also said  “The new administration has violated our core values, challenged the separation of powers, and tested the very fabric of our Constitution in unprecedented fashion. It is clear that the Supreme Court will be tried in ways that few courts have been tested since the earliest days of the republic, when constitutional questions abounded.”

Senator Tim Kaine also made a similar case: “The importance of an appointment to the highest court in the land and the duty of upholding and defending our Constitution demand a higher threshold for confirmation than for any other appointee,” Kaine said. “The actions of the Trump administration over the past week raise the stakes to an even higher level.”