Chuck Schumer Drops The Hammer On Trump's Key Judicial Nominee

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During remarks on the Senate floor Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the nomination of Whitney Hermandorfer to serve as a circuit judge on the Sixth Circuit.

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00:00Later today, Senate Republicans will confirm Donald Trump's first judicial nominee of his

00:05second term, Whitney Hermandorfer to be a circuit judge on the Sixth Circuit.

00:11We all know when it comes to judges, Donald Trump cares only about one thing, total unyielding

00:18fealty to Donald Trump.

00:20Not experience, not judicial independence, not knowledge or desire to pursue the law,

00:27but brazen, uncomplicated fealty to Donald Trump.

00:31That's how he chooses judges.

00:33That's how the people under him choose judges.

00:35We've never seen this in America.

00:36It could have been a conservative like Ronald Reagan, someone like George Bush or H.W. Bush

00:43or Clinton or Obama.

00:45They all looked.

00:46They wanted their, you know, they wanted someone to have some philosophical kinship with them.

00:53But they said, will they follow the law?

00:54Do they know the law?

00:55Not this administration.

00:56It's so different than all the others in a very bad way.

01:00Donald Trump doesn't care about the law or what the Constitution says.

01:05He says that himself.

01:07He only wants his foot soldiers in black robes defending him when he tries to do whatever

01:12he wants.

01:14Ms. Hermandorfer has failed to show that she can be an independent jurist committed to

01:18upholding the law.

01:20She has less than 10 years of legal experience.

01:23She has never served as the sole or chief counsel on a single case.

01:28She has made a career out of going after people's reproductive rights, transgender rights, and

01:34anti-discrimination policies.

01:37For nominees like Ms. Hermandorfer the standard, our courts are weakened.

01:41The judiciary runs amok.

01:43The American people are worse off.

01:45I strongly, strongly oppose her nomination.

01:49Voice of you from the officer of John Tsui.

01:50That answers her concern.

01:50Right.

01:51What has happened?

01:51No.

01:51I think for the women are extraordinary.

01:53How has happened?

01:54No.

01:54No, I think that kind of happened in this prison.

01:54You get to the poor and look at the party to carry on the doctrine of the law .

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