Sen. Tom Cotton Thursday said he is glad Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed some regrets for the words he used against Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, but he still thinks the New York Democrat should apologize.
"It'd be better if he would just flatly apologize and move on with serious business, like, perhaps, trying to protect the lives of the unborn and protect women from very dangerous medical circumstances," the Arkansas Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
Cotton's comments came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., slammed Schumer in remarks on the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Schumer told protesters outside the court that the two justices, both appointees of President Donald Trump's, would "pay the price" for decisions related to abortion cases.
"I should not have used the words I used," Schumer said in the Senate Thursday while maintaining he had not threatened either justice.
Meanwhile, Cotton said the "real issue" isn't Schumer's words, but the Democrats' views on abortion.
"Schumer and the Democrats filibustered legislation that would prevent infanticide of a young baby that survives an abortion, prevent late-term abortion of infants that can feel pain in their mother’s womb," said Cotton. "These are depraved practices that no civilized society should permit, yet, the Democrats are so radical on abortion that they’d filibuster those bills in lockstep. That’s the real issue at stake here.”
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