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Trump Would Relish a Supreme Court Fight.. By John Fund

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mystery-ak:
 Trump Would Relish a Supreme Court Fight
He knows that many of his voters chose him for his promise to steer the Court rightward.
By John Fund — November 20, 2016

Chuck Schumer, the incoming leader of Senate Democrats, warned Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press that any Supreme Court nominee of Donald Trump’s will be filibustered if he or she isn’t “mainstream.”

“If he doesn’t nominate a mainstream candidate, we’re going to go at him with everything we have . . . go at the candidate with everything we’ve got because this is so, so important,” Schumer said. He then falsely claimed that all four of the nominees put forth by President Obama and President Bush had won wide bipartisan support. Not true. Justice Samuel Alito was confirmed in 2006 with the votes of only four out of 44 Senate Democrats.

Schumer’s threat is real. During the debate on Alito, Harry Reid, who was then the Democratic leader of the House, and then-senator Barack Obama attempted a filibuster against him.

But far from being intimidated, Donald Trump is likely to relish such a fight. During the annual meeting of the Federalist Society, the nation’s premier conservative and libertarian legal group, a group of its chapter presidents got an inside look at some of Trump’s thinking. Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society’s executive vice president and a leading adviser to Republicans on judicial nominees, told the group that Trump isn’t going to be dictated to.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442343/donald-trump-supreme-court-fight-reid-schumer-threaten-filibuster

skeeter:
Sen Cleanface Harry Reid and his democrat buddies, hoisted on their own petard. Hilarious.

Enjoy your retirement, ahole.

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