Al Franken Says the GOP Is Gaslighting Democrats on Garland and Gorsuch

[applegrove]

By Mark Joseph Stern at Slate

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/22/al_franken_says_the_gop_is_gaslighting_democrats_on_garland_and_gorsuch.html

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Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Sen. Al Franken expressed his concern about several decisions that favored businesses over consumers. “What we’re worried about,” he explained, “is another 5–4 Roberts Court making one decision after another … that hurts consumers.” Franken then tied conservatives’ interest in preserving these decisions to Senate Republicans’ unprecedented filibuster of Merrick Garland: “You said earlier, there’s no Democratic judges, there are no Republican judges. If that’s the case, what was Merrick Garland about? That’s what it was about. … [This] core group of cases in which the Roberts Court continually has ruled in favor of corporations.”

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[volstork]

1. Go, Al!

He is one of our finest Senators.

[ananda]

4. Franken has been great on this!

Every Dem should stand up against Gorsuch.

Don't even give him a vote.

[dchill]

14. Even Chris Matthews says this.

No Dem votes.

[Angry Dragon]

2. I like Al

[mcar]

3. Al has been great during these hearings

As have all of our Dem senators!

[ReformedGOPer]

5. Love him. Always did, even the SNL Al.

[applegrove]

6. I loved it when he was a comedian, and an election was on and he would

get out a marker and a whiteboard and give the electoral lowdown on each state all the while drawing that state perfectly, till he had a map of the US. That was so funny.

[Cryptoad]

7. Resist,,,, Obstruct,,,, NO Vote!

[Ilsa]

8. That was a big Whack! Thank you, Sen. Franken!

Use gorsuck's words agsinst him.

[iluvtennis]

12. Agree..love it!

[tenorly]

9. They're psychopaths.

They gaslight everyone they can, at every opportunity.

[NurseJackie]

10. Franken Rocks!! He's a great Democrat! He...

... makes me proud to be a Democrat.

[calimary]

13. As he once said on SNL - "this is the Al Franken Decade."

It could finally be underway! For real!

[Boomerproud]

18. We need that decade desperately.

Smart as a whip. Harvard educated. Compassionate. Minnesota-thank you!

[bucolic_frolic]

11. THIS is the whole ball of wax

The business interests behind the GOP

Roberts is there to be their guy

Goresuch is even worse than Scalia

[Honeycombe8]

15. Absolutely! nt

[Cha]

16. Mahalo, Sen Franken!

[bdamomma]

17. The Dems may not

head the Senate and House, but damn we have some good Senators out there that are coming out swinging!!!!

We need to fight these bastards....................

[tammywammy]

19. Frankenstein as awesome today. n/t

[harun]

20. Al's really asking the right questions in these hearings, great stuff.