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Posted on 02/01/2017 12:43:09 PM PST by Innovative
President Trump, seeming to relish a fight with Democrats over his nominee for the Supreme Court, on Wednesday encouraged the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, to invoke the so-called nuclear option and abandon the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees.
“If we end up with that gridlock, I would say, ‘If you can, Mitch, go nuclear,’” the president said on Wednesday from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “Because that would be an absolute shame if a man of this quality was put up to that neglect. I would say it’s up to Mitch, but I would say, ‘Go for it.’”
His call for a battle came as Democrats began grappling on Wednesday with their most consequential strategic choice to date in the age of Trump: how aggressively to oppose the president’s choice, federal appeals court judge Neil M. Gorsuch.
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Go, Republicans!
Easy call on that one.
I think destroying the filibuster would be a great accomplishment.
MAGA!
2017 “I think destroying the filibuster would be a great accomplishment.”
2021 ??????????
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YEAH BABY
THEY PICKED THE WRONG GUY FOR A PATSY
SEEYA CHUCKY
WE WON
This should be fun to watch. What “the suits” don’t realize is that Trump is a tough, seasoned, street fighter, and can put their political careers in serious jeopardy.
I would love to see the filibuster killed. I’ve long been an opponent of it.
Let elections have consequences. Lousy legislation can quickly be gutted in future congresses, and lousy presidents be quickly identified.
The process will be more dynamic and better mirror what the founders envisioned.
Plus, after losing their connection to their state legislatures, senators are immune from scrutiny for 5 straight years. That’s absurd.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
If the Republicans won’t go nuclear for Trump on the Supreme Court, the conservatives need to go nuclear on them. And I mean H-bomb.
Absolutely nothing wrong with the filibuster Mr Smith goes to Washington style. If it means enough for you to speak nonstop to the point of collapse to stand on a principle, go for it! Cloture is like fake media, all show n snow with no substance!
I just love our new President!! Who knew I’d see someone like this in the White House in my lifetime...
“I just love our new President!!”
I know I sure do. He will be even better with his full cabinet in place and all the hiring and firing is out of the way.
the dems were going to do this...now we can.....add seats..Article III of the United States Constitution does not specify the number of justices. The Judiciary Act of 1789 called for the appointment of six justices, and as the nation’s boundaries grew, Congress added justices to correspond with the growing number of judicial circuits: seven in 1807, nine in 1837, and ten in 1863.
In 1866, at the behest of Chief Justice Chase, Congress passed an act providing that the next three justices to retire would not be replaced, which would thin the bench to seven justices by attrition. Consequently, one seat was removed in 1866 and a second in 1867. In 1869, however, the Circuit Judges Act returned the number of justices to nine,[68] where it has since remained
AND better if Sessions can cut the head off the snake of the freaks, which is prosecuting Soros and putting him and his family out of business.
McCain and Graham are already saying they “won’t be pressured” in participating in the “Nuclear Option.”
Harry Reid is gonna get whacked by his own party.
“I would love to see the filibuster killed.”
I’d love to see the filibuster constitutionalized.
It is certainly true that the democrats will abandon it at their first opportunity regardless of what we do today, but I’d prefer that the government’s hands be tied for both sides. If that means we need to give up our temporary advantage today in order to help preserve liberty in the future, then so be it.
What is the purpose of the filibuster? Why shouldn’t the majority prevail?
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