Posted on 03/23/2017 8:16:55 PM PDT by jthomas21
This morning, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced the Democrats will filibuster Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. If you listen to the media, Republicans will have to use the "nuclear option" to confirm Gorsuch with 51 votes. But the media, as usual, misses the point: Harry Reid already pushed the button and the Senate is a nuclear wasteland.
Read more here: http://thefederalist.com/2017/03/23/time-republicans-embrace-nuclear-option-neil-gorsuch/
No. Each state legislature decides.
Exercise the nuclear option and primary any Republican Senator who doesn’t vote to confirm.
This is an interesting question, because Linda Graham has said he will vigorously oppose employing the so-called “nuclear option.” And if Linda opposes it, that means McCain opposes it. And I can see the Bobsey Twins (Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins) also opposing it.
The Dims are happy with a 4-4 court, and they will filibuster EVERY Trump Scotus nominee.
Is that you, Clarence?
The Democrats are an embarrassment to the world.
When will someone say, in a national TV interview, ‘if the citizens of this country wanted Merrick Garland or some other Leftist, they would have elected Hillary Clinton. They didn’t. Period’.
Since senator Harry Reid changed the consent rule in the Senate, the Democrats lord it over the Pubbies right up to 2014.
Turn about is fair play.
5.56mm
Which means that there is no 60-vote rule in the Constitution at all.
Yes, just go on and confirm. Schumer will just have a new false narrative -
#1 Gorsuch is an invalid justice because Obama did not get Garland his Senate vote, then
#2 Gorsuch is an invalid justice because he didn't get 60 Senate votes.
Call it "Justice delayed is justice denied"
Tell it to Judge Bork. Payback, yes!
What is it about "each house may make it's own rules" that is difficult to understand?? If sufficient members voted to do so, the House could re-institute a 60-vote rule tomorrow, and it would be "Constitutional".
Right—but the OP’s point is that the GOP controls both houses and there is nothing constitutionally stopping them from pushing through whatever they want.
Republicans should all wear ball caps with #51 on them.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.
IOW, just because something is theoretically possible doesn't mean it will happen in the real world.
OP wasn’t claiming that it would happen.
If he is not confirmed, he would have been another Scalia; if he is confirmed, look for another John Roberts soon to emerge.
The recess appointment would be good only to Dec. 31, 2017, right? And that appointee would be ineligible for the seat.
No, winner-take-all is determined by the state itself, and 48 have agreed to it.
Didn’t realize that, thanks. Not such a good idea in that case I guess.
If Gorsuch gets on there and starts voting like Sandra Day O'Connor, he will. Replacing a staunch, outspoken conservative with a right-of-center squish would move the court to the left.
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