Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging His Colleagues To Oppose The Nomination Of Benjamin Flowers To Be A United States Circuit Court Judge

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor to oppose the nomination of Benjamin Flowers to be a United States Circuit Court Judge for the Sixth Circuit. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

The nomination of Benjamin Flowers ought to concern every member of this body. Flowers checks virtually every box the MAGA right expects from its judges. America, this is who Trump's putting on the bench. People far away from what you believe. Flowers has fought against birthright citizenship, against abortion rights, and against the result of the 2020 election.

What Flowers has fought for is also disturbing. In 2021 in Ohio, Flowers tried to defend a $250,000 cap on damages for a child sex abuse survivor - a cap the Ohio Supreme Court deemed "arbitrary and unreasonable." Flowers is also on the record saying that a president can simply ignore a court's reasoning when he disagrees with it.

Election denial. Attacks on reproductive freedom. Siding with abusers over survivors and the president over the Constitution. Is this the kind of [person] Republicans want on one of the highest courts in the land?

I urge my colleagues to oppose this nomination.

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