Schumer Caught on Cellphone: 'WE ARE GOING TO WAR' Over Supreme Court

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SEN. SCHUMER CAUGHT ON CELLPHONE: 'WE ARE GOING TO WAR' OVER SUPREME COURT



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Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer got busy plotting away on the cellphone aboard a Washington, DC-New York Amtrak -- plotting Democrat strategy for the upcoming Supreme Court battle.

Schumer promised a fight over whoever the President’s nominee was: “It's not about an individual judge… It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court.”

The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!



Schumer proudly declared: “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”

Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”

Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.

“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”

By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.



The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.

Developing… Filed By Matt Drudge

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Former Senator Fred Thompson has been picked by the White House to guide the new nominee through the Senate confirmation process.

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SEN. SCHUMER CAUGHT ON CELLPHONE: 'WE ARE GOING TO WAR' OVER SUPREME COURT

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::yawn::

In other news, I think Drudge just reported the sky is blue.

Democrats and Republicans are going to battle over a SCOTUS nomination? I'd have never guessed that myself.

This is more pedestrian/dull than the typical Drudge stuff; even worse than boring insider Hollywood gossip and 3.5 magnitude earthquakes 150 miles off the coast of San Francisco.

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In other news, I think Drudge just reported the sky is blue.

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OTOH, Drudge being Drudge, it's somewhat surprising that he didn't report that the sky is yellow with red polka dots.

People still read the Drudge Report?

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People still read the Drudge Report?

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Where else would you get earth-shattering headlines (complete with flashing sirens) such as

"WEINSTEIN BROTHERS DEMANDING 2.5% OF DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS OF NEW RUSSELL CROWE PIC FROM DISNEY/MIRAMAX!!!!!!!!!!!"

and

" ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN DEFEATS BILL O'REILLY IN JUNE 10TH-12TH CABLE NEWS SWEEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
?

[canis582]

Whats a drugdge report?

[Boris]

Thank god for Chuck Schumer. If wasn't for people like him, Robert Bork would be on the SCOTUS. That would have been a disaster. Step 3 on the way to Talibanizing the USA.

[canis582]

Bork doesn't believe in the right to privacy.

He'd have the American Secret Police (known as the Freedom Police) come get you for playing online poker.

[ChristinaB]

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Now we must invade Scotland. This injury to our God-President must not stand!