Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
The top Democrat in the Senate said in a new interview that his party will not let President Donald Trump place a "right-winger" on the Supreme Court following the Democrats' flipping control of the upper chamber in the midterm elections.
"The bottom line is we're not going to allow a right-winger on the court," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is expected to become majority leader early in 2027 as the new Congress is seated, told The Associated Press.
"Extreme Democrats have a history of politicizing the Supreme Court, even entertaining plans to pack the Court with liberal justices," Lauren Bis, a White House spokeswoman, told The Epoch Times via email. "President Trump will never let them pack the Supreme Court and ruin the independent judiciary."
Schumer declined to say in the interview whether he might keep any Supreme Court vacancy that arises open until after the 2028 presidential election, a strategy employed by former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ahead of the 2016 race. Schumer did say that Democrats would not allow "any crappy nominees" to be confirmed to any judicial posts, or Trump's Cabinet.
Schumer told reporters during a post-election press conference on Wednesday that "the days of Trump's supplicant Senate are over."
He also said that Senate Democrats are open to judicial nominees "who obey the law, who have
