# And down goes Schneiderman! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 8, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793 "2018-05-08T01:35:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/1 "2018-05-08T01:35:46Z")
Eric Schneiderman, the great white hope for Democrats hoping to have a back-up plan for when Bob Mueller and Rod Rosenstein get fired, is already being asked to resign by the Governor. > **[Eric Schneiderman Resigns as New York Attorney General Amid Assault Claims by...](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/nyregion/new-york-attorney-general-eric-schneiderman-abuse.html)** > > After four former romantic partners accused him of physical assault, Mr. Schneiderman announced his resignation as the state’s top law enforcer. Looks like the stars are aligning for a Trump dictatorship. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/2 "2018-05-08T01:37:47Z")
Well, considering Cuomo is a snake with delusions of grandeur, I hope Schneiderman tells Cuomo to go to hell. At least for now. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/3 "2018-05-08T01:41:35Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Well, considering Cuomo is a snake with delusions of grandeur, I hope Schneiderman tells Cuomo to go to hell. At least for now. There’s nobody that’s going to support Schneiderman. It’s over. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/4 "2018-05-08T01:42:21Z")
Schneiderman, Schneiderman… ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/5 "2018-05-08T01:53:19Z")
Ahhh the irony: > [@](#): > > Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general who rose to prominence as an antagonist of the Trump administration, abruptly resigned on Monday night, hours after four women accused him of physically assaulting them in an article published by The New Yorker. > > … > > His resignation represented a stunning fall for a politician who had not only turned his office into a bulwark of resistance against President Trump, but also assumed a prominent role in the #MeToo movement. > > Two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, said they had been choked and hit repeatedly by Mr. Schneiderman. Both said they had sought medical treatment. Another woman, a lawyer, said she was slapped violently across the face. A fourth woman also said she had similar experiences. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/6 "2018-05-08T02:31:28Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Eric Schneiderman, the great white hope for Democrats hoping to have a back-up plan for when Bob Mueller and Rod Rosenstein get fired, is already being asked to resign by the Governor. > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/nyregion/new-york-attorney-general-eric-schneiderman-abuse.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/nyregion/new-york-attorney-general-eric-schneiderman-abuse.html) > > Looks like the stars are aligning for a Trump dictatorship. :dubious: So, the people of the State of New York are going to elect Don, Jr., as New York State Attorney General now? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/7 "2018-05-08T02:38:49Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > :dubious: > > So, the people of the State of New York are going to elect Don, Jr., as New York State Attorney General now? No, but his hobby has been investigating the Trump organization, and it’s doubtful whether anyone carries that effort forward. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/8 "2018-05-08T02:43:33Z")
Any other watchers of the series Billions reminded of Chuck? But for the mirror-image kinks, and one being state, and the other federal, dude actually even looks a bit like Paul Giamatti! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/9 "2018-05-08T02:50:32Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > No, but his hobby has been investigating the Trump organization, and it’s doubtful whether anyone carries that effort forward. Why is that so doubtful? I don’t know that much about New York politics–I didn’t actually know Eric Schneiderman’s name–but I do know (well, I just looked it up) that Clinton carried the state by over 1.7 million votes. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/10 "2018-05-08T03:16:32Z")
Right now it goes to the legislature to pick a new AG to serve until the election in November. You know, just saying, Preet Bharara is free. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/11 "2018-05-08T03:31:07Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Looks like the stars are aligning for a Trump dictatorship. The suspense is killing me!! ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/12 "2018-05-08T03:42:22Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Right now it goes to the legislature to pick a new AG to serve until the election in November. You know, just saying, Preet Bharara is free. Oh yeah, that would be good. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/13 "2018-05-08T03:50:08Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Looks like the stars are aligning for a Trump dictatorship. Certainly that’s the Putinist view. Others less enthralled by Vlad will have noted that the NY State Assembly and Senate are majority Democratic (though one Democrat apparently ‘caucuses with’ the GOP). So the odds are slim that a pro-Trump-dictatorship replacement for Schneiderman will be appointed. Sorry. Them’s the breaks. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/14 "2018-05-08T04:10:52Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Right now it goes to the legislature to pick a new AG to serve until the election in November. You know, just saying, Preet Bharara is free. I hope at least one of those Democrats in the NY State Legislature (not the one that caucuses with the GOP) sees what you wrote. How perfect would that be? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/15 "2018-05-08T04:55:37Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > > [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > > > Right now it goes to the legislature to pick a new AG to serve until the election in November. You know, just saying, Preet Bharara is free. > > I hope at least one of those Democrats in the NY State Legislature (not the one that caucuses with the GOP) sees what you wrote. How perfect would that be? It would be such an outstanding stroke of genius that I expect it has 0% chance of actually happening. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/16 "2018-05-08T05:25:10Z")
How about Hilary Clinton? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/17 "2018-05-08T05:56:50Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > There’s nobody that’s going to support Schneiderman. It’s over. Apparently he has the hands on experience the trump team needs in a lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/18 "2018-05-08T09:17:48Z")
Another notch on Ronan Farrow’s gun. And I’m willing to bet he’s got more targets in line. It must be frustrating for him though that the guy he really wants to bring down, his father, is untouchable. Which is just as well as I don’t think Woody is guilty of anything but bad judgment. Schneiderman is a real jerk though and it shows once again that politics has no relevance in this arena, there are scum aplenty on both sides. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/19 "2018-05-08T12:09:26Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > How about Hilary Clinton? 😃 Leave Hilary alone!! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793/20 "2018-05-08T13:41:33Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > No, but his hobby has been investigating the Trump organization, and it’s doubtful whether anyone carries that effort forward. Good point. There is very little anti-Trump sentiment in Democratic circles in NY. Pretty much nonexistent. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-down-goes-schneiderman/813793.md?page=2)