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catbyte

(34,402 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 07:05 PM Mar 2017

WTF? Gorsuch won't meet w/Democratic women Senators? Scared of being in same room like Pence?

Democratic women senators not allowed to meet with Trump’s pick for stolen SCOTUS seat

By Kaili Joy Gray
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MARCH 31, 2017

Republicans are demanding Democratic support for Donald Trump's nominee to the stolen Supreme Court seat, but the White House is denying some Democratic women the opportunity to even meet with him for questioning.

The Republican Party’s unprecedented theft of a Supreme Court seat is reason enough for Senate Democrats to oppose Donald Trump’s illegitimate nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch. But the White House’s refusal to make Gorsuch available to even meet with some Democratic senators to answer their questions leaves them no choice but to vote no.
According to Huffington Post, Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) have been denied meetings with Gorsuch, despite multiple requests. Duckworth’s office proposed several dates to meet with the judge, one of which he accepted and then canceled at the last minute, without offering any alternative times to meet, just a week before the Senate is scheduled to vote on his confirmation on April 7.

As a spokesman for Duckworth’s office told Shareblue in an email:
If Judge Gorsuch had wanted to meet with the Senator, he shouldn’t have cancelled their meeting without offering any additional times that worked for him.

Meanwhile, Cortez Masto’s office was not even given that much. According to her spokesman, Rey Benitez:
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http://shareblue.com/democratic-women-senators-not-allowed-to-meet-with-trumps-pick-for-stolen-scotus-seat/
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WTF?!? If we promise to chaperone, will he meet with them? What a bunch of backwards assclowns.
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WTF? Gorsuch won't meet w/Democratic women Senators? Scared of being in same room like Pence? (Original Post) catbyte Mar 2017 OP
My first thought also. The American Taliban, just like Pence. Idiots! n/t monmouth4 Mar 2017 #1
Sounds like a gop man, pure bigots. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2
I wonder if he'd meet with GOP women senators crazycatlady Mar 2017 #3
That's enough REASON right there to NOT confirm him MagickMuffin Mar 2017 #4
2 No Votes Me. Mar 2017 #5
There must be sex tapes of Gorsuch and Pence. JTFrog Mar 2017 #6
As I said about Pence: How can we trust somebody that doesn't even trust himself? n/t Binkie The Clown Mar 2017 #7
Just saw this.. looking for some place to post it.. Cha Apr 2017 #8

MagickMuffin

(15,943 posts)
4. That's enough REASON right there to NOT confirm him
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 07:17 PM
Mar 2017

He would continue to dishonor and disrespect women from the Bench. We already have enough of them already there!!!

 

JTFrog

(14,274 posts)
6. There must be sex tapes of Gorsuch and Pence.
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 07:23 PM
Mar 2017

They are trying too hard to convince us that they would never be alone with another woman.

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