Rep. Cicilline: Trump SCOTUS Nominee ‘Will Drag Us Back to a Very Dark Time’ in Our History

RUSH EXCERPT:

HARLOW: "On the Supreme Court, politico has interesting reporting this morning saying that Democrats are looking at talking about changing the strategy here to try — you don’t have much of a leg here, but to try to get the supreme Court nominee vote to wait until after the midterms and the Democrats are planning to move away from the talking points of this isn’t fair, this should wait until after the midterms to focus on the real world impact that another conservative justice would mean on the court. Especially when it comes to trying to sway some Republican senators who are, say, pro-choice, like Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins. As a Democrat, do you think that’s a better strategy?"
CICILLINE: "I think it is very, very important that people understand and we make the case to the American people of what is at stake in this Supreme Court nomination. Everything that we consider important, whether it is protecting a woman’s right to make decisions about her own health care, her own body, whether it is equality for members of the LGBT community, about this growing power of big corporate special interests like decisions like citizens united, and ripping away the ability of working people to be represented in an effective way under the Janice decision, deciding huge victories to rig the economy further in favor of the most powerful corporations and the richest people in this country, there is a lot at stake, voting rights, access to the ballot, so I think people need to understand this matters a lot and they ought to demand their members in the Senate not confirm a nominee who will undermine core American values and that will drag us back to a very dark time in our nation’s history and —"