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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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1 posted on 01/04/2017 4:16:05 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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The question, Jim, is do the pubbies have the stones to use it?


2 posted on 01/04/2017 4:18:13 PM PST by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: cardinal4

Trump has the stones to use it!!!!


3 posted on 01/04/2017 4:18:53 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Jim Robinson

Click the Pic

4 posted on 01/04/2017 4:19:51 PM 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: Jim Robinson

Must be a real disappoint for old Harry


5 posted on 01/04/2017 4:21:19 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Jim Robinson

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


6 posted on 01/04/2017 4:23:14 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: cardinal4

Maybe Trump will give McConnell a set because up until now he’s been a eunuch.


7 posted on 01/04/2017 4:26:40 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I hope Reid is using his exercise machine again...

5.56mm


8 posted on 01/04/2017 4:27:52 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Jim Robinson
Got it Harry. Thanks for the warning in advance. Trump will work with McConnell to include the nuke option for the USSC. Harry, you set the precedent for nominees and now threatening to further push it further if the Dems take the Senate in 2018?

Are you really this stupid? What goes around is coming around to bite you in the ass. Thanks for doubling down, you miserable friggin socialist. Go away and expire, er, retire.

9 posted on 01/04/2017 4:27:59 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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Sounds like a great idea. Nuclear option for judges. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.


10 posted on 01/04/2017 4:30:12 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: cardinal4

Not about “stones” with the GOP-e. They want what the Dems want, even if the last election was the greatest statement thus far by the electorate that we absolutely reject it.


11 posted on 01/04/2017 4:30:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
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Great find, JimRob!

So the Rats were going to eliminate the supermajority for the SCOTUS?

Well, lets help them. Then watch the Rat hypocrites and the MSM scream bloody murder!


12 posted on 01/04/2017 4:32:13 PM PST by bkopto
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With Shumer’s demand that Trump abandon the republicans and join with him and the Dims, Trump and McConnell ought to declare that the Nuclear Option is in effect as of mid-night tonight for all bills and nominees.


13 posted on 01/04/2017 4:39:57 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Chuckie Schumer is like a three year old whiner having a tantrum as was Dingy Harry, it’s in the RATS blood.

Chuckie still hasn’t come to the realization that’s what is responsible for President-elect Trumps win, people are fed up!


14 posted on 01/04/2017 4:44:39 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I expect “courageous” McCain, Graham and Collins to oppose using the nuclear option to again “save the Senate.” Remember when the nuclear option was being considered in 2005 when Democrats were blocking Bush’s conservative judicial nominees, the nuclear option was blocked by these three plus 4 other RINOs that are no longer in the Senate. Along with 7 Democrats, they formed the infamous Gang of 14 to block the nuclear option and work out a compromise.

Hope that I am wrong.


15 posted on 01/04/2017 4:47:30 PM PST by JeepersFreepers (The heart of the wise inclines to the right but the heart of the fool to the left. (Eccl 10:2 NIV))
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I think keeping it at 60 was best for the country so that some measure of bipartisanship was needed to confirm court appointees. But Reid crossed that Rubicon, and as the article states, he would have undoubtedly eliminated the filibuster even for Supreme Court nominees if they were back in power. The Republicans need to approve Scalia’s replacement (and soon Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s and Anthony Kennedy’s) by simple majority and be done with it.


16 posted on 01/04/2017 4:50:02 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Cry Me A River

17 posted on 01/04/2017 4:58:58 PM 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: Jim Robinson
The Dems love to talk about “out of the mainstream” as a description of non-Democrat judicial nominees. But having eliminated the filibuster for every appointment short of SCOTUS nominees, they face the unprecedented situation where the POTUS-elect has published a list (two, actually) of people he would consider appointing to SCOTUS - and subsequently won the presidential election. In that context the term “out of the mainstream” is a non sequitur.

Senator McConnell should abolish the filibuster for nominees already vetted by the presidential election. If Trump nominates someone on the list, filibustering his confirmation vote would not be proper. The only possible justification for allowing it would be to smoke out the Democrat senators who are up for reelection in ’18. There are 25 of them, ten of whom hail from states Trump won after publishing his list.


18 posted on 01/04/2017 4:58:59 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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i think we need to play this everytime before we nuke the g-d democrats.


19 posted on 01/04/2017 5:24:18 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Reid, I’m sorry, but Madam Crimewave and the American Light Communist Party (fka Dems) lost. Now, STFU, Harry...


20 posted on 01/04/2017 5:41:09 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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