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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWTF? Gorsuch won't meet w/Democratic women Senators? Scared of being in same room like Pence?
Democratic women senators not allowed to meet with Trumps pick for stolen SCOTUS seatBy 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 Partys unprecedented theft of a Supreme Court seat is reason enough for Senate Democrats to oppose Donald Trumps illegitimate nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch. But the White Houses 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. Duckworths 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 Duckworths office told Shareblue in an email:
If Judge Gorsuch had wanted to meet with the Senator, he shouldnt have cancelled their meeting without offering any additional times that worked for him.
Meanwhile, Cortez Mastos 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
As I said about Pence: How can we trust somebody that doesn't even trust himself? n/t
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2017
#7
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)1. My first thought also. The American Taliban, just like Pence. Idiots! n/t
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)2. Sounds like a gop man, pure bigots.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)3. I wonder if he'd meet with GOP women senators
Paging Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc.
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)4. That's enough REASON right there to NOT confirm him
He would continue to dishonor and disrespect women from the Bench. We already have enough of them already there!!!
Me.
(35,454 posts)5. 2 No Votes
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)6. There must be sex tapes of Gorsuch and Pence.
They are trying too hard to convince us that they would never be alone with another woman.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)7. As I said about Pence: How can we trust somebody that doesn't even trust himself? n/t
Cha
(297,289 posts)8. Just saw this.. looking for some place to post it..