Posted on 03/27/2017 10:09:48 AM PDT by davikkm
Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware predicted Monday that Republicans will “almost certainly” have to resort to the “nuclear” option to approve the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Coons, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held four days of hearings on the Gorsuch nomination, doesn’t envision Democrats crossing party lines to vote in favor of President Trump’s nominee. “He will get an up or down vote. Sen. Schumer, our minority leader, has said it is going to be a 60-vote margin, and I doubt he is going to get 60 votes. The question then, Joe, becomes: What do we?” Mr. Coons told host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Mr. Coons said lingering divisions between the two parties have poisoned the debate over Judge Gorsuch. He said Democrats are mad that Senate Republicans refused to hold hearings on Judge Merrick Garland, then-President Barack Obama’s pick to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
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I do give McConnell some credit.
A lot of people(including here) predicted Mitch would eventually let Garland get a vote.... but he didn’t! McConnell stood firm.
The GOP never uses the filibuster tool for SCOTUS nominees. I can’t believe Democrats would be stupid enough to do this, but looks like their insane communist base is demanding it. So be it.
Not a betting man, but wouldn’t be surprised if this is a head fake by Schumer, knowing that moderate Dem senators will provide the 60 needed to avoid the Nuc option.
You lost. Look it up.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/325890-dem-senator-not-included-to-filibuster-gorsuch
...the NEXT confirmation process — which might be much more important in terms of the balance of the court.
I sometimes wonder if Ginsberg didn’t retire because she thought if Hillary won she could simply retire after the election, and if Trump won, she could try to outlive Trump’s presidency.
But I don’t know if obvious evidence of her dementia will hold off that long.
I base this on some of her quotes over the last year. She was seriously violating protocol as though she thought she’d just be retiring after the election anyway, and the (hopefully damaging) things she said about trump would ensure a hillar win, making the damage to her reputation worth it.
‘Cept that isn’t what happened. Thank God!
Dems will give them Gorsuch, but all will agree to leave filibuster intact for Ginsberg replacement
I have no faith that this will ever happen. McConnell has no balls now and will grow none anytime soon. Nothing has changed except deck chair placement.
I don’t see the big deal here. The Senate ceased being a “great deliberative body” with the passage of the 17th Amendment.
Same with the House, sadly. These cretins no longer represent us, game the entire system, cheat whenever possible, lie often.
Dingy Harry changed the rule, we will follow them now. Period. Suck it up, buttercups.
If dems fight Gorsuch, then it is Trumps prerogative to replace both with conservatives and the groundwork will have already been laid... thank Harry Reid and the Dems.
Of course, if this happens, then I expect it to get very nasty and I am not surprised that it might be a precursor for a major incident... not quite a revolution but anything goes at this point and the Dems have proven that they can be violent.
I completely agree with this. The facade is lifted. Has been for a couple of decades now. It is more of a “jews vs Nazi’s” or Palestinian vs Israeli” thing now. There is no real common ground.
And in that last sentence is the key to how our “house divided” will not stand much longer, regardless of the outcome of the political battle de jure.
That is why I moved from Seattle to rural KY in 2011. The writing is on the wall and has been for decades. It’s only a matter of when, not if.
“And great was its fall.”
To damn simple for McConnell to understand. It will be screwed up, you can bet the Republicans will do it.
They will.
To be fair, we need to counterbalance the lower courts with a Supreme Court that is conservative.
...and the Dems have proven that they can be violent.
I give you the Bundy ranch standoff. Thousands of armed free men with guns pointed at fifty or so Federales. If one shot had been fired, the resulting hail of bullets would have changed America forever.
I honestly still expect it somewhere. We are by no means out of the woods. In fact, Trumps election may have, in a perverse way, drove us deeper in.
Matter of time. I tend to suspect the volleys will first fly between blacks and Hispanics, though.
Democrats win only if the Republicans choose to lose, that is what they are hoping for. Their “good friends” on the other side of the aisle to “reach out in the spirit of compromise”. “Discard the politics of division” “End the rancor” “work together for the good of the people” “Be brave and swim against the tide” “do what is right, even if it is not popular with the base”.
Is that enough D bag talk?
Place your bets.
Once the filibustering starts, Mich McConnell will OK the Nuclear Option in:
1 Day
5 Days
10 Days
20 Days
30 Days
...
100 Days
Never
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