Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants a "mainstream" Supreme Court nomination from President Donald Trump or else Democrats will "fight it tooth-and-nail" to block it and keep deceased Justice Antonin Scalia's ninth seat open, Schumer said Sunday.
"If the nominee is not bipartisan and mainstream we absolutely will keep the seat open," Schumer told CNN's "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper. "I'm hopeful that maybe President Trump will nominate someone that will get bipartisan support —but, yes, we'll fight it tooth-and-nail as long as we have to."
Schumer, tasked to lead the Democratic opposition to GOP President Trump and a GOP-held Congress, has already been ridiculed for his work stopping the Trump administration agenda. He retaliated Sunday.
"This cabinet is unusually unique and a lot different than others," Schumer told Tapper. "We call it the swamp cabinet, billionaires and bankers.
"The number of wealthy people, the number of people rife with conflicts of interest and the number of people who have disagreed with what Trump has campaigned on is so much more than just any other cabinet we've seen, and so that means they need thorough review. Thorough review so they don't have conflicts of interest . . .
"Republican colleagues —I don't blame them with this cabinet —have tried to rush it through."
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