Conservative writer selectively edits Chuck Schumer to accuse him of racism â ThinkProgress
Chuck Schumer
On Wednesday   Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)  gave a brief speech where  he  criticized Senate Republicans for applying different rules to Trump judicial nominees than they applied to President Obamaâs  chided Donald Trump for naming almost exclusively white judges  and announced that  he  would not vote for Marvin Quattlebaum  a newly confirmed district judge. It was the kind of routine speech that Senate leaders give every week. And itâs now fueling a massive right-wing hate fest against  Schumer .
On Thursday  the Daily Wireâs Ben Shapiro published a piece with the provocative title âRACISM IN ACTION:  Schumer : I Wonât Vote For This Judge Because Heâs White.â Itâs not an honest piece or an even remotely accurate one  but boy did it pop in certain dark corners of the Internet! According to NewsWhip  a service that monitors news traffic across various media outlets  Shapiroâs claim that  Schumer  is the Real Racistâ¢ was briefly the hottest story on the Internet.
Shapiro builds his piece around a selectively edited video. That video cuts off earlier parts of the speech  where  Schumer  notes that the only reason why Trump was able to nominate someone to fill this vacant seat is âbecause two Republican senators from South Carolina refused to return a blue slip for two judges nominated for the same vacancy by President Obama.â
After expressing concern about this double standard   Schumer  also raised a second objection. âThe nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trumpâs selections for the federal judiciary â  Schumer  noted. âAs of February 14th  83 percent of the President Trumpâs confirmed nominees were male  92 percent were white.â
In any event  if  Schumer  actually were refusing to vote for Quattlebaum simply because the newly confirmed judge is white  that would be a major shift by the minority leader. Besides Quattlebaum  the Senate confirmed a total of 11 Trump nominees to federal district courts.  Schumer  voted for 10 of these 11 nominees â Quattlebaum is  his  first ânoâ vote. All of the ten nominees  Schumer  supported  according to the Federal Judicial Center  are white.
The problem here  in other words  isnât that  Schumer  wonât support any white people named to the federal bench. Itâs that Trump  who once claimed that a sitting federal judge could not be fair because of the judgeâs âMexican heritage â appears unwilling to name virtually any judges who arenât white.
On Wednesday    [TGT] )  gave a brief speech where   [TGT]   criticized Senate Republicans for applying different rules to Trump judicial nominees than they applied to President Obamaâs  chided Donald Trump for naming almost exclusively white judges  and announced that  he  would not vote for Marvin Quattlebaum  a newly confirmed district judge. It was the kind of routine speech that Senate leaders give every week. And itâs now fueling a massive right-wing hate fest against   [TGT]  .
On Thursday  the Daily Wireâs Ben Shapiro published a piece with the provocative title âRACISM IN ACTION:   [TGT]  : I Wonât Vote For This Judge Because Heâs White.â Itâs not an honest piece or an even remotely accurate one  but boy did it pop in certain dark corners of the Internet! According to NewsWhip  a service that monitors news traffic across various media outlets  Shapiroâs claim that  Schumer  is the Real Racistâ¢ was briefly the hottest story on the Internet.
Shapiro builds his piece around a selectively edited video. That video cuts off earlier parts of the speech  where  Schumer  notes that the only reason why Trump was able to nominate someone to fill this vacant seat is âbecause two Republican senators from South Carolina refused to return a blue slip for two judges nominated for the same vacancy by President Obama.â
After expressing concern about this double standard   Schumer  also raised a second objection. âThe nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trumpâs selections for the federal judiciary â  Schumer  noted. âAs of February 14th  83 percent of the President Trumpâs confirmed nominees were male  92 percent were white.â
In any event  if  Schumer  actually were refusing to vote for Quattlebaum simply because the newly confirmed judge is white  that would be a major shift by the minority leader. Besides Quattlebaum  the Senate confirmed a total of 11 Trump nominees to federal district courts.  Schumer  voted for 10 of these 11 nominees â Quattlebaum is  his  first ânoâ vote. All of the ten nominees  Schumer  supported  according to the Federal Judicial Center  are white.
The problem here  in other words  isnât that  Schumer  wonât support any white people named to the federal bench. Itâs that Trump  who once claimed that a sitting federal judge could not be fair because of the judgeâs âMexican heritage â appears unwilling to name virtually any judges who arenât white.