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Reid: If Hillary wins and Dems retake the Senate, expect Dems to use the Nuclear Option for SCOTUS
legalinsurrection.com ^ | October 25, 2016 | Posted by William A. Jacobson

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 won’t 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 President’s 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, we’re going to be able to get judges done with a majority. It takes only a simple majority anymore. And, it’s clear to me that if the Republicans try to filibuster another circuit court judge, but especially a Supreme Court justice, I’ve told ’em how and I’ve done it, not just talking about it. I did it in changing the rules of the Senate. It’ll 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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 115th; borking; democratscandals; dingyharry; dncstrategy; filibuster; filibusterproof; filibusterrule; harryreid; hypocrites; justices; nuclearoption; obstructionists; reid; schumer; scotus; supremecourt; thenewpartyofno; trumpscotus; trumpstillwinning; trumpwinsagain
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To: Jim Robinson

Yeah the GOP would have Filibustered Hillary’s picks like they did with Kagan and Sotomayor


21 posted on 01/04/2017 5:44:47 PM PST by uncbob
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To: VRW Conspirator

“Reid needs to have his T’s crossed and his I’s dotted.”

And the elastic bands on his exercise machine tested.


22 posted on 01/04/2017 5:45:19 PM PST by vette6387
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To: VRW Conspirator

He got one eye dotted, and the union thugs did a pretty good jog of it.


23 posted on 01/04/2017 7:09:56 PM PST by Arkansas Tider (Army EOD (Ret))
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To: Jim Robinson

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.


24 posted on 01/04/2017 9:02:10 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Eleutheria5
Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.

BINGO!

25 posted on 01/04/2017 9:25:16 PM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Amen! And take no prisoners!


26 posted on 01/05/2017 2:58:23 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Jim Robinson

LOL! Add the old Toyota “You asked for it, you got it” and we have a concert shaping up.


27 posted on 01/05/2017 4:08:23 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Jim Robinson

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.


28 posted on 01/05/2017 4:49:07 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: TigersEye

——Maybe Trump will give McConnell a set -—

Elaine Chao


29 posted on 01/05/2017 4:52:21 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: jazusamo

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


30 posted on 01/05/2017 4:55:56 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: Jim Robinson

Way back in the mid 1990s, Microsoft Word offered the spelling correction “scummier” for “Schumer”. It fit then, it fits now.


31 posted on 01/05/2017 5:04:28 AM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yo, Schumer, elections have consequences!

Chuckie get used that reality for the next 8 years as your rat party become history.


32 posted on 01/05/2017 10:52:06 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama shut your lying mouth and leave America! You are past your use by date! You stink!)
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To: Fiddlstix
Thanks for this replay!


33 posted on 01/05/2017 10:55:47 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama shut your lying mouth and leave America! You are past your use by date! You stink!)
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To: Grampa Dave

You’re welcome BUT I stole it from another FReeper and I don’t even remember who that was. lol


34 posted on 01/05/2017 11:03:35 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix

We are a family of FRthieves, keeoing it in the family.:)


35 posted on 01/05/2017 11:18:54 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama shut your lying mouth and leave America! You are past your use by date! You stink!)
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To: Jim Robinson

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!


36 posted on 01/05/2017 1:39:08 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


37 posted on 01/05/2017 10:00:54 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: JeepersFreepers

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!


38 posted on 01/07/2017 11:46:29 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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