(National Sentinel) Divisive: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer announced Friday he could not support a Trump nominee to the federal bench because he’s white.
The president nominated Marvin Quattlebaum for a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, but Schumer turned the nomination into a racial attack because he said he is a white man replacing two black Obama nominees.
“The nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary,” Schumer complained.
“Quattlebaum replaces not one, but two scuttled Obama nominees who were African American,” he continued.
“As of February 14th, 83 percent of the President Trump’s confirmed nominees were male, 92 percent were white. That represents the lowest share of non-white candidates in three decades,” he said on the Senate floor.
“It’s long past time that the judiciary starts looking a lot more like the America it represents. Having a diversity of views and experiences on the federal bench is necessary for the equal administration of justice.
“I’ll be voting no on the Quattlebaum nomination,” the New York Democrat concluded.
Critics pounced on Schumer’s statements, calling them unnecessarily divisive.
Heyes went onto say that race should never be a factor in any nomination to the federal bench — and there’s no indication at all that Trump’s picks are race-based, he noted.
In January, Schumer accused President Trump of being a racist during an appearance on late-night TV with Steven Colbert.
“Look, first, Donald Trump has lied so many times it’s hard to believe him on anything, let alone this,” Schumer said in reference to a question from the host about whether he thinks Trump made his “s**thole” comment regarding third-world countries like Haiti. The comment was allegedly made in reference to immigration reform legislation.
“Look, his comments over and over and over again can be described as nothing but racist and obnoxious,” said Schumer.
One of the biggest phonies in Congress but that seems systematic in the Democratic Party today.