Senate leader to use 'nuclear option' to confirm Supreme Court nominee

1. McConnell needs to be recognized for singlehandledly SAVING Scaia’s seat by refusing to hold hearings on Obama’s nominee in 2016.

2. Its a funny thing about Trump that people are starting to pick up on - he seems to act like a quick “spine transplant” on those that are around him.

Human nature is such that most people will gravitate towards, and bend their will towards, a REAL leader, because people want to be LED.

When you don’t have one around, most people go back on their heels. When you have an UBER-leader like Trump around, even the Mitch McConnells start feeling like they can move mountains.

MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Screw em. They do NOT want the supreme court to start slipping away. The Supremes are the holy grail of the commies. That court gives them all they want. We have to get total control of the court now!!

I suggested earlier that perhaps we should approach our older conservatives and ask them to step down. YES, I have already heard the yelling at me about this suggestion. HOWEVER, the three on our side right now are aged, and have health problems. We have no guarantees that President Trump does more than four. Simply look at it like that. IF, if he gets this first one through, then gets three younger conservative Constitutional justices, then we have four solid ones for 20-30 years. Then if one or two of the commie justices has to step down, Trump can put in theirs and we control the court 5-4 or 6-4, and Heaven is good if it went 7-3!! I am afraid that if Trump went only four or even if he gets eight and they still hang in, then absolutely, ABSOLUTELY the dim that might win when Trump went out could replace every one of them, ALL OF THEM! And, we don't have any guarantees that VP Pence would even win. As wishy washy as this country is on presidents, their side, our side, their, ours, who knows what would happen. People suggested way back when George W. Bush won, and the RINOs had the House and Senate that the republicans would control for 25 years. Bull, it lasted only 8. So, nothing is guaranteed.

“In 2003, then-Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) resorted to the so-called “nuclear option” to confirm lower court nominees, but stopped short of using it for nominees to the high court.”

Bullfeathers. How could one say that he “stopped short” of eliminating the 60-vote cloture requirement in the case of SCOTUS nominations when THERE WEREN’T ANY SCOTUS NOMINATIONS PENDING AND NONE CAME UP DURING THE REST OF THE TIME THAT THE DEMOCRATS WERE IN THE MAJORITY? When the Democrat presiding officer ruled that the filibuster rukes did not apply for judicial nominations, and a majority of Senators (all but one of the Democrats, with no Republicans voting for it) ruled that the presiding officer was correct, that established the precedent that 60-vote cloture may not be invoked for any judicial nomination. Or would liberals have us believe that the ruling only applied to nominees to whichever Court of Appeals those particular particular persons were nominated?

Unless new rules specifically applying a 60-vote cloture requirement to SCOTUS nominations were adopted by the Senate, then Senate precedent dictates that cloture may not be required for any judicial nomination. I wish that Senate Republicans would make that clear instead of pretending that Harry Reid’s after-the-fact assurance that the new rule did not apply to SCOTUS nominations (and which just three months ago he bragged would be abandoned if Hillary became president and the RATs retook the Senate) has precedential value.

Here’s the game plan: Have President Trump nominate a young, exoerienced, proven conservative to SCOTUS that 51 Republican Senators can support (the names that he’s floated recently are all fine, although I’d check with Senators before nominating Pryor because his previous nomination was controversial), have the Judiciary Committee approve the nomination with a positive recommendation, have Pence preside over the Senate the day that the nomination reaches the floor, and when McConnell moves that the nomination be confirmed and a Democrat Senator invokes cloture, have Pence rule that under Senate precedent cloture does not apply to judicial nominations, and then have the GOP Senators vote to uphold his ruling. Then we’ll have a new (young, conservative) Justice confirmed with at least 55 votes, since Democrats from Trump states whose term is up in 2018 would be loath to vote against a qualified judicial candidate 18 months prior to reelection. (And since those Democrats are unlikely to defy Schumer and vote for the nuclear option, we still can run ads saying that they tried to derail Justice X’s nomination by voting to apply filibuster rules that the Democrat Senate had eliminated for Obama’s judicial nominees.)

Once that precedent has been established firmly and unequivocally, President Trump will need only 50 votes (plus Pence) to confirm future SCOTUS nominees, such as (hopefully) repkacements for Ginsburg, Kennedy and Breyer. And if such vacancies occur after the 2018 elections, when the GOP will increase its Senate majority, he won’t even need to preclear nominees with the likes of Collins or Murkowski (while Graham is an untrustworthy pansy, he’s pretty good on judges so I’m not worried about him on an up-or-down vote on a conservarvative judicial nominee).

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