Mark Levin on Supreme Court vacancy battle: 'We don't take an oath to the Democrat Party'
Fox News' Mark Levin discusses the controversy over appointing a new Supreme Court justice in place of Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 presidential election.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke like a fascist when he vowed that "nothing is off the table" if President Trump goes forward with a nomination to replace late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to "Life, Liberty & Levin" host Mark Levin.
"What the president is doing is traditional and constitutional," Levin, a former Reagan Justice Department official, said at the opening of Monday's edition of "The Mark Levin Show".
"Chuck Schumer said that if Donald Trump -- who is the president for four years -- nominates someone to the Supreme Court while he's the sitting president, and the Republican Senate -- while they have a majority -- vote to confirm a justice to the Supreme Court ... everything is on the table," Levin stated before asking: "Does the Constitution give the Senate -- let alone one senator -- the power to 'put everything on the table'?"
Schumer's statements, Levin continued, "are the words of a fascist, of a Brownshirt, of a totalitarian."
"The Constitution determines what's on the table," he continued, adding that Democrats' ultimate goal -- amid their threats and intimidation -- is to create the conditions to give them permanent control of the United States and its government.
"The Democrats have already threatened -- and intend to -- eliminate the filibuster rule as it applies to legislation," said Levin, who noted that such a move would render the minority party obsolete as a force for compromise.
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In November 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., ended the filibuster for judicial nominees -- a move many observers said was meant to help President Barack Obama and a "President Hillary Clinton."
Democrats have also threatened to give statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia -- a move that would all but ensure four near-permanent Democratic seats in a 104-member Senate.