Any spineless Senate Democrats considering a deal to confirm Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, will most definitely be trying to cut that deal without support from their leadership. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced he will join a filibuster of Gorsuch:
Gorsuch “was unable to sufficiently convince me that he’d be an independent check” on Trump, Schumer said in a Senate floor speech.
Gorsuch is “not a neutral legal mind but someone with a deep-seated conservative ideology,” Schumer added. “He was groomed by the Federalist Society and has shown not one inch of difference between his views and theirs.” [...]
Gorsuch “declined to answer question after question after question with any substance. … All we have to judge the judge on is his record,” Schumer said.
Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey, who will be running for re-election in 2018 in a state Trump won and has not been known as a flaming liberal, also announced he’d filibuster.