Posted on 01/09/2017 7:31:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The conservative Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) is planning to launch a $10 million national ad campaign to push Democratic senators to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
JCN said it’s planning to air ads in states that have vulnerable Democrats up for re-election in 2018, particularly those where Trump won by large margins.
Senate Democrats have vowed to fight back against any Trump pick that they see as too conservative.
“We are not going to settle on a Supreme Court nominee," Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer(D-N.Y.) said last week in an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
"If they don’t appoint someone who’s really good, we’re gonna oppose him tooth and nail.”
In a statement, Carrie Severino, JCN’s chief counsel and policy director, said any senator who signs up for Schumer’s “obstructionist strategy will pay a heavy price in 2018.”(continued)
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Gee, here’s hoping these guys are around to defeat Lyin’ Ted in TEXAS, if we ever find an opponent with a war chest to match the Cruz left-over campaign cash.
The Dems will not stop Trump's nominee...just do their little song and dance and get it over with.
Hahahaha!
I don’t know. Seems to me the obstructionists need to somehow pay a price now, not two years from now.
Almost the entire Congress has demonstrated that they are willing to sell this country down the river by looking the other way while 0bama commits treason. The prospect of losing the next election didn’t appear to be a factor then - why would it now?
waste of money. enact the nuclear option.
>waste of money. enact the nuclear option.
Yep. We all know that the Dems will certainly use it once back in power.
Wouldn’t it be a better idea to hit up Cruz and any of the others who profess to be conservatives to contribute unspent campaign funds to this effort?
We know that Lyin’ Ted served as Vice Chairman to the NSRC, donated $250k to it, and oversaw it during the Cochran racism crap in the primary. He essentially raised the money that was used to smear Chris McDaniel, surely ensuring a strict constitutionalist on the Supreme Court would be a better use for any spare cash he might have lying around.
We don’t need ads - we need spines.
And Rita - just stop with the Cruz crap. You’re clueless.
Guess what, nuclear option only works for SCOTUS. Let them filibuster all they want and complain. The American people will get tired of it after a week. Hell, let it drag on until 2018 when the Democrats in Senate stand to take a huge hit. Then it wont matter anymore.
Who believes Trump will nominate a real conservative?
More conservative than Merrick Garland or a likely Hillary pick?
Which one on the list he’s going to work from isn’t a conservative?
“Who believes Trump will nominate a real conservative?”
I believe he will nominate Cruz. Young, conservative and a great legal mind. The election is over. Time to move on.
Probably - it's the second one that will really chap their butts....
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