Chuck Schumer is a hard act to follow. The 70-year-old Senate Majority Leader imbues all he does with his scrappy Brooklyn Jewish upbringing. Kristen Gillibrand, the junior senator from upstate New York who was raised Catholic, has a much more nuanced relationship with her state’s Jewish citizens. In an interview after the inauguration of Joe…
On Wednesday, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia were sworn in to the U.S. Senate, making Chuck Schumer of New York the body’s first Jewish Majority Leader. Schumer will need every single caucusing Democratic Senator — including, with Ossoff, a minyan of Democratic Jews — to support him in enacting President Biden’s ambitious vision….
As Kamala Harris made history on Tuesday becoming the first woman and first person of color to be Vice President, she also handed Senator Chuck Schumer of New York with a prize of his own — becoming the first Jew to serve as Senate Majority Leader. The Senate is split 50-50 and Schumer and Minority…
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat poised to take over as the Senate’s first Jewish Majority Leader, on Thursday called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment in order to remove President Donald Trump from power. The quickest and most effective way—it can be done today—to remove this president from office…
Before the Senate resumed its certification of the 2020 election, a process delayed hours by a crowd of pro-Trump protestors storming the Capitol, Sen. Chuck Schumer made his first speech as the presumptive majority leader, laying the blame for the siege at Trump’s feet. “This will be a stain on our country not so easily…
During Sen. Chuck Schumer’s first Senate run for a New York seat in 1998, in a private meeting with Jewish supporters, Republican Sen. Al D’Amato called his upstart competitor a “putzhead,” literally meaning “penis-head.” Schumer has come a long way. Now, after victories for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in competitive Senate runoffs in Georgia,…
Jewish incumbents running for reelection were bombarded with antisemitism on Twitter over the summer, according to a study released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL found that between July 23 and August 22, 30 incumbent Jewish members of the House and Senate received a total of nearly 6,000 antisemitic tweets, about 10% of the…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was criticized after saying Wednesday that President Trump’s appointees to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, would “pay the price” for ruling against abortion rights in a high-profile case currently before the justices. “I want to tell you, Gorsuch; I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released…
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