Sharpton: GOP Senators Should ‘Recuse Themselves’ in SCOTUS Confirmation

‘This is the challenge the Republicans have to deal with’

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SHARPTON: "If we are to have any iota of a democratic process in this election, the Republicans in the Senate, if they move forward as they seem determined to do with the process of the confirmation hearings or whoever the president nominates Saturday and a vote, they are to insist they recuse themselves. Because in effect this president has therefore not only violated the whole procedure they set up in 2016 against justice Garland, nominated by President Obama. He has, in fact, put in place how he can checkmate American democracy by putting in a judge that will guarantee, if proceedings go through the courts up to the Supreme Court, his re-election. And for him to be able to checkmate American democracy, is, in fact, a coup rather than an election. And this is the challenge the Republicans have to deal with from the public if you insist on doing what you should not be doing you should at least make sure they recuse themselves otherwise you’ve handed over this democracy to a whole situation that is nothing short of that we are now going into an autocracy headed by a man who is not able to get through a sentence without revealing his inner most thoughts of ultimate power."

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