
Massachusetts Democrat and progressive hero Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a flawless argument to her Senate colleagues for why Judge Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's nomination for the stolen Supreme Court seat, is an unacceptable choice and should not be confirmed.  And, as usual, she is completely right. 

Senate Republicans are determined to steal the vacant Supreme Court and give it to Judge Neil Gorsuch — whose anti-woman record and remarks, even during his confirmation process, is deeply troubling — but Democrats are united in making sure they will not get their way without a fight. 

That is why Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) organized her fellow Democratic women senators to give a series of speeches highlighting what makes Gorusch unacceptable, especially for women and their families. 

Donald Trump's nomination of any judge for this seat is arguably illegitimate, given the unprecedented and outrageous scheme the GOP deployed to prevent President Obama from fulfilling his constitutional duty to fill the vacant seat. 

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But this particular nominee, at this particular moment in Trump's presidency, is especially troubling, and Democrats are right to do everything in their power, including filibustering, to stop him — as Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) so perfectly explained in a speech on the Senate floor:

Thank you, Mr. President.  Thank you to the senator from Hawaii for calling us here together today.  Mr. President, it is clear that President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, does not have enough support in the Senate to be confirmed under our rules.  When a Supreme Court nominee does not have enough support to be confirmed, the solution is to pick a new nominee, but Republicans in the Senate are threatening to pursue a different path.  They are considering breaking the Senate rules to force the nominee on to the Supreme Court anyway.  Now, I'll be honest.  I think it is crazy that we are considering confirming a lifetime Trump nominee to the Supreme Court at a moment when the president's campaign is under the cloud of an active, ongoing FBI counterintelligence investigation that could result in indictments and appeals that will go all the way to the Supreme Court so that Trump's nominee could be the deciding vote on whether Trump or his supporters broke the law and will be held accountable.  That is nuts, and I believe we should tap the brakes on any nominee until this investigation is concluded. 

Warren is right, and that should be reason enough to prevent the Senate from confirming any Trump nominee to a lifetime appointment.  But Warren continues, listing specific objections to Gorsuch in particular, including the fact that he was hand-picked by right-wing groups because they believe he would be their ally on the Court: