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  • Kaine: Dems will use 'nuclear option' if GOP blocks court nominee

    04/06/2017 10:24:58 AM PDT · by confederatecarpetbag · 28 replies
    The Hill ^ | Oct. 26, 2016 | Jordain Carney
    Hillary Clinton's running mate is predicting Democrats will go "nuclear" if Republicans try to stonewall a potential Supreme Court nominee by Clinton. Tim Kaine on Friday said he believes Senate Democrats will change the chamber's rules if they run into GOP obstruction in 2017. Kaine, however, said Friday that there's a "significant likelihood" that Garland will get confirmed this year.
  • McCain on filibuster change: ‘It’s a bad day for democracy’

    04/06/2017 1:27:54 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 98 replies
    Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bemoaned the state of the Senate on Thursday as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to change the chamber’s rules in order to break through the Democratic filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority. Earlier in the day, Republicans failed to reach the 60-vote supermajority needed to end debate and proceed to a vote. “It’s a bad day for democracy,” McCain said before entering the Senate chamber, where he later voted with fellow Republicans to change the rules. “I think it’s a terrible mistake that we will regret for many, many years to...
  • Senate GOP 'goes nuclear,' clearing way for Trump court pick

    04/06/2017 11:41:58 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 48 replies
    WYFF-TV ^ | April 6, 2017 | Erica Werner, The Associated Press
    Republicans invoked the "nuclear option" in the Senate Thursday, unilaterally rewriting the chamber's rules to allow President Donald Trump's nominee to ascend to the Supreme Court. Furious Democrats objected until the end, but their efforts to block Judge Neil Gorsuch failed as expected. Lawmakers of both parties bemoaned the long-term implications for the Senate, the court and the country....
  • Senate Republicans deploy ‘nuclear option’ after Gorsuch filibuster

    04/06/2017 9:16:33 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 109 replies
    Foxnews.com ^ | 4-6-2017 | Judson Berger
    Senate Republicans deployed the so-called “nuclear option” Thursday afternoon in a bid to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, moving to overcome a Democratic filibuster just minutes earlier. The Senate initially voted 55-45 on a motion to end debate on Gorsuch, with four Democrats breaking ranks; it needed 60 to succeed. Known as a filibuster, this vote triggered Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to go “nuclear.” This means he is trying to change Senate precedent so that the Senate can move to a final roll call with just a simple majority of 51 votes, as opposed to 60....
  • Filibuster Vote Thread

    04/06/2017 7:46:32 AM PDT · by BigEdLB · 43 replies
    US Senate ^ | Mitch Mc Connell
    Filibuster vote
  • Here's the real reason why Democrats have been so partisan about Trump's pick

    04/06/2017 8:17:27 AM PDT · by richardb72 · 41 replies
    Fox News ^ | April 6, 2017 | John R Lott Jr
    Some ask why Democrats are filibustering Judge Gorsuch, who has received accolades from even some of the most partisan, liberal lawyers. But a clash is inevitable — if not over this Supreme Court nominee, then surely over the next. Democrats are about to launch the first, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee, forcing an end to Senate rules that have helped foster centuries of bipartisanship. But while everyone is discussing the partisanship over Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation, the real question is being ignored: what has caused this increased rancor? There is a lot at stake. In fact, there is...
  • Arkansas Senator Torches Democrats' Hypocrisy On Gorsuch Filibuster

    04/05/2017 12:24:26 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 31 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 5, 2017 | Matt Vespa
    Sen. Jeff Merkley spoke for over 15 hours, protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, saying how this seat on the high court is stolen, and that the integrity of the courts would be undermined for decades if the Senate confirms him. Yes, a man who received the American Bar AssociationÂ’s highest rating is going to denigrate the courts. This is bath salts logic, but Merkley has been one of GorsuchÂ’s early (and vocal) opponents. HeÂ’s from a blue state. And his base is frothing at the mouth to go all-out war, even in the face of defeat....
  • How To Make Chuck E. Schumer Cry Again

    04/05/2017 7:14:59 AM PDT · by NOBO2012 · 7 replies
    Michelle Obama's Mirror ^ | 4-5-17 | MOTUS
    Rich Lowry: Throughout its history, the United States Senate has experienced disgraceful filibusters (Strom Thurmond against the 1957 Civil Rights Act), entertaining filibusters (Huey Long in 1935 reciting a fried-oyster recipe) and symbolic filibusters (Rand Paul making a point about drone strikes in 2013). But the filibuster that Chuck Schumer is about to undertake against Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court is perhaps the institution’s dumbest. Hard to argue with that, but in the interest of progressive politics there is nothing so dumb that the Democrats won’t do it. It won’t block Gorsuch, won’t establish any important jurisprudential...
  • McCain: Anyone Claiming Nuclear Option Is Good For Senate Is A ‘Stupid Idiot’

    04/05/2017 5:16:37 AM PDT · by kevcol · 93 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | April 4, 2017 | Juliegrace Brufke
    “I would like to meet that idiot, I’d like to meet the numskull that would say that,” he told reporters. “That after 200 years, at least 100 years of this tradition, where the Senate has functioned pretty well, they think it would be a good idea to blow it up.” McCain said changing the rules would be a “body blow to the institution,” adding he thinks it puts them on a slippery slope. .. McCain said he’s had numerous conversations with members on both sides of the aisle in an attempt to strike an agreement on the matter.
  • The Gorsuch Filibuster Shows The Liberal Base’s Clout (state by state table of senators)

    04/05/2017 4:33:21 AM PDT · by NYer · 23 replies
    fivethirtyeight ^ | April 3, 2017 | Nate Silver
    Sen. Claire McCaskill At least 41 Democratic senators have publicly committed to filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, leading to a probable showdown with Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.The filibuster might seem like payback for Democrats after Republicans refused to consider the nomination of then-President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, for 293 days starting last year. Unlike Republicans last year, however, Democrats don’t have all that much power. They aren’t in the majority — and McConnell has strongly hinted that he could seek to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court picks if Gorsuch can’t get 60...
  • Repeal the Filibuster: How the U.S. Senate has Unconstitutionally Held us Hostage for Over 200 Years

    04/04/2017 8:26:13 PM PDT · by tonydbaker · 20 replies
    CliffordRibner.com ^ | March 23, 2017 | Clifford Ribner
    Check the polls for the last 10 years (at least): no single profession, nor any other group of people in America, is more universally despised than the US Congress and its members (although, thanks largely to their control over reelection variables, their constituents usually reelect almost all of them.) Their “approval” rating as a group is often in the teens and, today, is actually at one of its high-water marks – up to the low 20’s in some polls!
  • What's this about "nuking the filibuster?"

    04/04/2017 4:29:36 PM PDT · by Shark24 · 4 replies
    catholicvote ^ | Apr 4, 2017 | catholicvote
    Confused by what's going on in the Senate for Judge Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation? We hear ya. So we'll let Jimmy Stewart and Mufasa explain...
  • U.S. Sen. McCain says will support changing rules to confirm Gorsuch

    04/04/2017 2:49:17 AM PDT · by jalisco555 · 76 replies
    Reuters via MSN ^ | 4/3/17 | Richard Cowan
    U.S. Sen. John McCain on Monday announced that he will support an upcoming effort by his fellow Republicans to win Senate confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by changing the chamber's rules in order to overcome Democratic opposition. McCain, in remarks to reporters, said he had "no choice" but to go along with a change in rules ending a tradition of 60 votes in the 100-member Senate needed to advance Supreme Court nominees to a final vote. He said he would support the rule change "because we need to confirm Gorsuch." In the past, McCain has strongly...
  • Gorsuch wins approval from Senate panel on party-line vote, setting up historic filibuster

    04/03/2017 8:37:14 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 42 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 04/03/2017 | David Savage
    Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, won approval Monday on a party-line vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, setting the stage for a filibuster showdown on the Senate floor later this week. At the same meeting, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware announced he would provide the crucial 41st vote need to support the threatened Democratic-led filibuster of Gorsuch. The committee's 11 Republicans all endorsed Gorsuch as a well-qualified conservative judge whose record "falls well within the mainstream," as committee chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) put it. All nine Democrats opposed Gorsuch. They faulted the Republican nominee for refusing...
  • Schumer: How about instead of nuking the filibuster, you let Democrats help choose SCOTUS nominee?

    04/02/2017 7:43:52 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 75 replies
    Hotair ^ | 04/02/2017 | AllahPundit
    All I can hear is Bill Lumbergh’s voice: “Yeeaahhh, I’m gonna have to say no.” Needless to say, no one to the right of David Souter would survive a vetting process in which Democrats had veto power over a Gorsuch replacement. Besides, various liberal legal luminaries like Neal Katyal and Kathleen Sullivan have already weighed in on whom Trump should appoint to the Supreme Court. They named Neil Gorsuch. There’s your compromise.I’m surprised this no-hoper of an idea is Schumer’s best shot at a “reasonable” solution to the Gorsuch standoff. He could have floated a new “Gang of 14”...
  • Join a People’s Filibuster in Your City ( Anti-Gorsuch Whackos)

    04/01/2017 1:23:27 PM PDT · by Candor7 · 26 replies
    The People's Defense ^ | 1 April 2017 | Staff
    Join a People’s Filibuster in Your City Americans are coming together to join People’s Filibuster events across the country. All times are in the morning, shown in the local time zone. Find an event in your local city below or host your own.
  • How ridiculous is the Democrat hypocrisy on the Gorsuch filibuster? This ridiculous.

    03/31/2017 11:45:06 AM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 8 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 03/31/17 | Robert Laurie
    Watch it, share it, never let them forget. A few short years ago, Republicans were “political terrorists.” They were also “showboaters,” “hostage takers,” and were “refusing” to accept the results of the last presidential election. Those were among the claims made by a wide variety of Democrats - all of whom were accusing the filibustering GOP of the worst sorts of selfish, hyper-partisan, passive aggressive behavior.
  • Senate Republican Suicide (caving on Gorsuch)

    03/31/2017 7:54:20 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 58 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | March 30, 2017
    House Republicans immolated themselves over health care last week, and now Democrats are hoping the Senate GOP will perform its own kamikaze turn over Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. If Republicans blink and tolerate Democratic filibusters of High Court nominees, they should hand over their majority to the Democrats now. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s strategy is transparent: Stage-manage an unprecedented filibuster against Judge Gorsuch, and then portray Republicans as radicals if they change Senate rules to break it. The gambit is to coax at least three of the 52 GOP Senators to cut a deal with Democrats that hands the...
  • Harry Reid's Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS

    03/30/2017 8:02:10 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 19 replies
    TPM ^ | October 24, 2016 | Lauren Fox
    Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he is confident that he has laid the groundwork for Democrats to nuke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if they win back the Senate in November. Envisioning Hillary Clinton in the White House and Democrats controlling the Senate, Reid warned that if a Senate Republican minority block her Supreme Court nominee, he is confident the party won't hesitate to change the filibuster rules again. Such a move would be an extension of what Reid did in 2013 when he was still majority leader, eliminating filibusters (with a simple majority vote) on...
  • Democrat Filibuster of Judge Gorsuch

    03/29/2017 9:18:39 AM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 13 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 03/29/17 | Matthew Vadum
    Democrats planning a likely futile gesture to send a message to Trump Desperate to placate their increasingly rabid far left-wing base, ethically-flexible Senate Democrats are planning to launch a filibuster against a Supreme Court nominee for the first time in a half-century and only the second time in American history. Their insistence on this course of action could very well lead to the abolition of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations.