Posted on 03/26/2017 5:42:51 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s vow to lead a filibuster of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court raises the prospect of a dramatic rules-change that would permanently alter the Supreme Court confirmation process.
The question now is whether there are 51 votes in the Senate Republican caucus to support the nuclear option. While most Republicans seem prepared to back the measure, a handful of consensus-oriented veterans may be recalcitrant to change the rules and further escalate the judicial confirmation wars.
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The Senate will give him the votes. This is Schumer’s way of demanding that Ginsburg will be replaced by a rat judge to keep the status quo.
We’ll see.
I am definitely not one of those FReepers though. I want to see Gorsuch seated ASAP.
Gorsuch is dead in the water. I was thinking that a deal would be reached to allow his nomination to pass in return for a pledge from 3-4 RINO Senators ( we know who they are)to keep the current 60 vote rule on the next nominee. But the Democrats don’t need to make any deal because those 3 or 4 RINOs like McCain who will sell out for peanuts.
If the next one is Armageddon the nominee should be Cruz.
Kennedy and Thomas both mentioned retiring. It just may be this summer for both.
As much as I hate to be fair, McPain and Miss Lindsey are on board with the Nuke.
It’s the other week-kneed sisters, Collins and Murkowski we have to watch
I’m not sure if the VP can break ties on a Senate rules vote
I don’t think it matters who the nominee is.
I think the GOP is just going to sit there with their dicks in their noses.
thank you. senate has been 50-50 before and I couldn’t find anything on it regarding rule votes.
https://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=RulesOfSenateHome
Maybe somebody can explain the “nuclear option” to me. What do they mean when they say that it can only be used once?
I’m not so sure Gorsuch is the conservative we think he is. It was posted (after this post on FR) that Gorsuch goes to a liberal church with a woman minister that supports gay rights. Troubling.
I can understand why one could feel that way.
False and a fantasy.
The reason Garland isn't on the court is because people like you and me have been donating and calling and voting and dragging out other voters to give the country a Republican Senate, House and now the White House.
If there has been a clear message in the past few elections it was---no, not Obamacare---but the need to put the reins on the increasingly radically Left U.S. Supreme Court.
Yes, I am glad McConnell held the seat open. But WE put him position to do it, and we worked to give him a President who will follow through.
McConnell had damned little choice. If he had allowed that seat to be filled before the election---there would have been a Hillary landslide.
Now McConnell is safe for, what, another four years? We'll just see how he handles Gorsuch.
The American people are the Swamp. They have been completely corrupted by OPM (Other People’s Money). The Swamp cannot be drained until the American people refuse to take OPM.
During the Great Depression, millions of Americans refused public assistance, returning their direct assistance checks with angry letters, denouncing the government for questioning their ability to survive without public charity. My how times have changed.
I think perhaps what they are saying is that it only needs to be used once. The "nuclear option" would permanently change Senate rules (until a new rule might be adopted) so that a Supreme Court justice cannot be filibustered. This would mean that a confirmation vote would take place and a simple majority would dictate whether the nominee is confirmed or not.
The Demoncrats already invoked the nuclear option for all other Presidential nominees. It's my understanding that the only nominations subject to filibuster now are those for the Supreme Court.
It gives them a crutch and is misleading. They know exactly what they are doing they are there for themselves and will sell the souls of their children to make themselves rich.
I did not say their own souls for they went to the highest bidder long ago.
“There’s blood in the water now. McCain, Lindsey and Flake can take down the Gorsuch nomination”
Linda Graham already said that he/she supports Gorsuch. Also Pence could be the tie breaking vote.
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