Senate Democrats seek delay in Kavanaugh hearings, citing Cohen’s guilty plea wapo.st/2Lj1wcb?tid=ss…
2/"Senate Democrats on Wednesday called for delaying confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh in the wake of a guilty plea by Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney, on campaign-finance counts that involve the president. Democrats, who have
3/"been seeking leverage to slow down Kavanaugh’s consideration, argued that a new justice could be forced to decide questions directly relating to Trump, including whether he must comply with a subpoena from prosecutors and whether he can be indicted while in office. “It is
4/"unseemly for the president of the United States to be picking a Supreme Court justice who could soon be effectively a juror in a case involving the president himself,”
5/"Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said during a floor speech. “The prospect of the president being implicated in some criminal case is no longer a hypothetical that can be dismissed.”
