Why the far left is telling Chuck Schumer to watch his back after Brett Kavanaugh

Published September 6, 2018 5:28pm ET



The far left is furious that Minority Leader Chuck Schumer won’t charge into the valley of death against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

They want less rear-guard parliamentary action and more outright aggression (or grandstanding, depending on your view), such as that recently demonstrated by the new Democratic presidential frontrunner, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who sort of violated Senate rules (but later said he didn’t) by releasing documents labeled as “committee confidential.”

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