Chuck Schumer Rejects Judicial Nominee for Being White - Who wants to win the midterms, anyways?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced a stern rebuke from congressional colleagues for citing skin color in voting against a white federal judge nominee earlier this week.

Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Wednesday that the nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum, a white lawyer who is a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Greenville, S.C., “speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary.”
He complained that many of Trump’s nominees have been white males. He also complained that Republicans previously held up two black judges nominated under the Obama administration for the position— which The Post and Courier notes has long been vacant.

“It is long past time that the judiciary starts looking a lot more like the America it represents,” Schumer said. “Having a diversity of views and experience on the federal bench is necessary for the equal administration of justice.”

The senator said that with Quattlebaum’s nomination, the Trump administration was “taking a giant step backwards” in terms of diversity.

Quattlebaum was ultimately confirmed to the district judgeship on Thursday, 69-29.

Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, slammed Schumer for his statements.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Thursday it was actually Schumer’s vote against Quattlebaum that was “a massive step backward.”

While Schumer “is not a racist,” Graham tweeted, “this was an absolutely shameful reason to vote against a very qualified nominee like Marvin Quattlebaum.” He added, “Voting against a highly qualified nominee because of the color of his skin does nothing to bring our country and nation together.”

Don Beatty and Alison Lee were both nominated by the Obama administration to fill the federal judgeship.

Sen. Tim Scott, also a Republican serving South Carolina and the GOP’s sole black senator, tweeted, “Perhaps Senate Democrats should be more worried about the lack of diversity on their own staffs than attacking an extremely well-qualified judicial nominee from the great state of South Carolina.”

Schumer asserted that the only reason Quattlebaum was nominated for the unoccupied position was because the state’s Republican senators didn’t return their “blue slips” — a blue form used by senators to voice approval or disapproval for a home state nominee — for Obama nominees Alison Lee and Don Beatty in 2013.

Democrats have said that Republicans used blue slips to block about 18 of Obama’s nominations, arguing the denial of a hearing for a nominee without two blue slips was fine with Republicans then. Democrats said the policy shouldn’t change just because the person who sits in the White House is different.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., countered on Twitter that Lee’s nomination “was withdrawn because of a significant bond issue” and Beatty eventually was appointed as the Chief Justice of the state’s Supreme Court.

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I saw this the other day from an entirely different source and I'd just assumed they were exaggerating because the right wing sources like Daily Caller and Information Liberation tend to go out of their way to make things worse than they actually sound, but I saw the story repeatedly pop up in a load of other sources and he actually did say that during the nominee hearing, at around 0:30 in the video.

They have to be intentionally trying to lose the midterms or something at this rate, how in the name of Hell could he possibly think that choosing to start declining judicial nominees based on the colour of their skin is going to help win back that huge chunk of Middle America that the Democrats lost in 2016? I am genuinely trying to rationalize with you here, Democrats, please help me understand how this is a winning strategy.

What the Hell are the Democrats even going to campaign on, at this point? "We'll raise your taxes, open the borders and take all your guns away. Also fuck white people?" There's no way that they can't hear how bad this sounds. The midterms and the 2020 elections need to hurry the Hell up because I want to see this dumpster fire so badly.

 

[skiddlez]

It would not surprise me to see media outlets covering this positively in the coming days. The problem is that while the left is technically winning the culture war in terms of aesthetics, it doesn’t do them any good come election time. They can drum up outrage and synthesize as many racial divides as they like but as long as private voting remains a thing, it’ll all just be skin deep. If they want outrage culture to win them elections they’ll have to get rid of voting booths and make everyone accountable to their peers.

That'll be another platform they run on. Raise taxes, open borders, take away guns, fuck white people, and also end voting because it discriminates on Democrats.

This should work.

 

[Secret Asshole]

they're playing the long game. too bad that there's still a bit to go, before whites become a minority in the US.

It will be a Hispanic majority and they will openly hate niggers so much that will make them wish for white people back. The democrats seem to think Hispanics will be nice PoCees who will vote for them. Thing is, once people get money, they get more conservative. If Hispanics become the majority, they get more wealth and become more conservative.

 

[millais]

Schumer should off himself for being a member of the white male devil class. He probably looks at himself in the mirror every morning and tells himself what a piece of shit he is for being a white male anyways.

Nah, Chuck Schumer is probably a case of Schrodinger's Jew. When he needs to publicly criticize the faults of White America and proclaim the need for national soul-searching, he will profess to be a fellow white, but when he needs to score points in the Oppression Olympics, he will claim minority status as a Jew who is marginalized by the white majority.

 

[dunbrine47]

Shut the fuck up schmuck.

 

[Mr. Poker in the Front Liquor in the Rear]

Schumer is such a typical Jew. A shame his ancestors made it through WW2.

 

[usernames can change now!]

they're playing the long game. too bad that there's still a bit to go, before whites become a minority in the US.

That strategy backfires when you cause your opponents to elect a President who openly says "I want more immigrants from Norway and less from African shitholes". Hilariously, Democrats own actions are the strongest push back against the demographic crisis.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

If they want outrage culture to win them elections they’ll have to get rid of voting booths and make everyone accountable to their peers.

Don't tempt them, because I wouldn't put it past a strand of sjw-ism to pitch exactly this sort of 'electoral reform'. Guaranteeing public accountability is the only way to ensure people vote appropriately, yada yada, public education via peer group organisation and pressure, blah blah. Muh democracy, muh feels.

Thankfully these berks seem to believe that twitter is reality, and so vastly underestimate what little real support they have, but still. It's quite amazing how low people will stoop to gain power.

 

[RG 448]

Don't tempt them, because I wouldn't put it past a strand of sjw-ism to pitch exactly this sort of 'electoral reform'. Guaranteeing public accountability is the only way to ensure people vote appropriately, yada yada, public education via peer group organisation and pressure, blah blah. Muh democracy, muh feels.

Exactly.
“Private voting was a luxury Americans could safely enjoy in the days of old, but in this age of trolling, where anonymity leads to racial violence, and the president has an unprecedented amount of control over the executive branch, a haphazard or uninformed vote is more dangerous than ever.”

 

[Maggots on a Train]

Deport Chuck Schumer to Mexico, where his preferred constituents live.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

 

[Caesare]

they're playing the long game. too bad that there's still a bit to go, before whites become a minority in the US.

White people will never be the minority in America, not in our lifetimes, not in our great great grand kids lifetime. The stats have been pretty static forever, with the only group that grew being the Latino's, which the vast majority are white anyway.

 

[Slap47]

White people will never be the minority in America, not in our lifetimes, not in our great great grand kids lifetime. The stats have been pretty static forever, with the only group that grew being the Latino's, which the vast majority are white anyway.

They look white but it's not about looks. It's about culture and values.

 

[Caesare]

They look white but it's not about looks. It's about culture and values.

They look white and they are white. Their culture is conservative, they're typically devout Roman Catholics, and nothing about playing "a long game" is going to help out the democrat party when it comes to Latinos. The only reason the ultra conservative blacks keep voting democrat is due to a constant barrage of propaganda on all of their radio/tv stations.

 

[Bagronkleton]

I can't tell if he's willingly making himself a target to pull the heat away from the myriad of fuckups the Democratic Party has gotten itself into or if he just gets his rocks off from the attention.

But if this is the best man they can have to run their shitshow then he is truly the leader the Dems deserve.

 

[CWCchange]

They look white but it's not about looks. It's about culture and values.

Well the idea is, the "Hispanics" who come legally would have money and be of good character, likely also descendants of Western European immigrants. For example, White Brazilians of German descent native to its South Region would be a good immigrant pool if Brazil doesn't get its act together and they can't secede.

 

[AnOminous]

It's a fact that judges have been both nominated and confirmed for exactly these reasons in the past. Since Louis Brandeis, there was a reserved "Jewish seat" on the Supreme Court. Any time someone retired from it, another Jew was mysteriously nominated. It's also no mystery that Clarence Thomas was chosen to replace Thurgood Marshall because he was the most qualified black candidate available who was also right wing.

The Jewish thing has gone by the wayside, since the composition of the Court before Neil Gorsuch was all either Catholic or Jewish, despite both of those representing a fairly small fraction of the population. (Gorsuch himself was apparently raised Catholic but currently attends a Protestant church.)

What is gauche and stupid is actually to say that shit publicly. Schumer is an idiot. This is not news, but it's true.

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

Most of the powerful whites in America seem to be Jews so just tell them Jews are actually good for diversity.

 

[AnOminous]

They look white but it's not about looks. It's about culture and values.

Most of them are white that way, too.

 

[polonium]

Thankfully these berks seem to believe that twitter is reality, and so vastly underestimate what little real support they have, but still. It's quite amazing how low people will stoop to gain power

I knew someone (friend of a friend) who said we should only hold votes on things where the public can be trusted to vote the right way. And I'm not paraphrasing, that's verbatim. The problem is the media (and social media) are absolutely infested with this type of thinking so it creeps in to mainstream.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I'm actually still a registered Democrats and apparently in the last year or so I have become a right wing Nazi.

Of course its becoming increasingly clear anyone to the Right of Chairman Mao is a Nazi in the modern political spectrum.