During his interview with Rachel Maddow Tuesday night, Senator Chuck Schumer was surprisingly forceful in his answers about how Democrats would handle any Supreme Court nominee Trump put up for nomination, unless the nominee was at least as moderate as Merrick Garland, the nominee Republicans defeated by stalling for nearly a year.
Rachel Maddow pressed him hard on the question, and his answer was surprisingly strong.
Transcript below:
MADDOW: Let me ask you a hard-line edge on that which is the Supreme Court. The Republicans took this unprecedented step. They didn't let President Obama make a Supreme Court appointment for almost a year now.
SCHUMER: Very moderate, mainstream nominee.
MADDOW: A nominee who a lot of progressives would have been very disappointed in. but that was an incredibly radical thing the Republicans did. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon says they stole a Supreme Court seat.
SCHUMER: That's a fair statement.
MADDOW: Didn't they just get away with it?
SCHUMER: They did.
MADDOW: There are no consequences for it?
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