Schumer Calls For Delay In Gorsuch Vote Because Of FBI Russia Probe
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for Republicans to delay a vote on Neil Gorsuch because of the ongoing FBI investigation into ties between the Trump campaign 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,” Schumer said.
“I’d like to point out that it is the height of irony that Republicans held this Supreme Court seat open for nearly a calendar year while President Obama was in office, but are now rushing to fill the seat for a president whose campaign is under investigation by the FBI,” Schumer said on Senate floor.\
“You can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI the Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances,” Schumer said.
“After all, they stopped a president who wasn’t under investigation from filling a seat with nearly a year left in his presidency,” Schumer continued.
