Posted on 01/04/2017 4:16:05 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he is confident that he has laid the groundwork for Democrats to nuke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if they win back the Senate in November.
Envisioning Hillary Clinton in the White House and Democrats controlling the Senate, Reid warned that if a Senate Republican minority block her Supreme Court nominee, he is confident the party wont hesitate to change the filibuster rules again.
Such a move would be an extension of what Reid did in 2013 when he was still majority leader, eliminating filibusters (with a simple majority vote) on the Presidents nominees. There was only one exception: the Supreme Court. As it stands now, Democrats still need 60 votes to move forward with a Supreme Court nominee.
Reid said, however, that could change.
I really do believe that I have set the Senate so when I leave, were going to be able to get judges done with a majority. It takes only a simple majority anymore. And, its clear to me that if the Republicans try to filibuster another circuit court judge, but especially a Supreme Court justice, Ive told em how and Ive done it, not just talking about it. I did it in changing the rules of the Senate. Itll have to be done again, Reid told TPM in a wide-ranging interview about his time in the Senate and his legacy.
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Yeah the GOP would have Filibustered Hillary’s picks like they did with Kagan and Sotomayor
“Reid needs to have his Ts crossed and his Is dotted.”
And the elastic bands on his exercise machine tested.
He got one eye dotted, and the union thugs did a pretty good jog of it.
Trump needs to do what Obama did in the sense that he never ever cared about polls or reaching across the aisle. He had an agenda and he put it through. He threw so much out there that the republicans didn’t know where or how to focus.
BINGO!
Amen! And take no prisoners!
LOL! Add the old Toyota “You asked for it, you got it” and we have a concert shaping up.
Hello from the future, harry!
Well, it looks like the shoe is on the other hand now harry.
You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!
We won and now you have given us a weapon we will use to crush you and your pathetic band of anti-American thugs.
——Maybe Trump will give McConnell a set -—
Elaine Chao
Nothing so dramatic.....
Chuckie is merely reading from a script containing the words to be conveyed to the masses hoping something will be done to stop the Trump led Republican juggernaut.
The senator is lying for effect
Way back in the mid 1990s, Microsoft Word offered the spelling correction “scummier” for “Schumer”. It fit then, it fits now.
Yo, Schumer, elections have consequences!
Chuckie get used that reality for the next 8 years as your rat party become history.
You’re welcome BUT I stole it from another FReeper and I don’t even remember who that was. lol
We are a family of FRthieves, keeoing it in the family.:)
Gee, Harry, that didn’t work out too well for you guys, did it? Well, too f’ing bad, you scumbag!
Oh, and don’t even think that you’re fellow Rats will have a chance in Hell of re-taking the Senate any time soon. With 25 out of 33 seats up in 2018 being Rats, you guys will be lucky to get out with 40 seats.
GFY, Dingy Harry!
Yes, and moreover the GOPe won’t hesitate to reveal themselves...the Dems won’t need a filibuster to stop real conservative, original intent judges.
e nuclear option was blocked by these three plus 4 other RINOs
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Yep back then we had the all three branches of Government and couldn’t do squat.....SOOOO NOW NUKE IT ASAP AND GET OUR SHT DONE!
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