Posted on 09/25/2018 6:53:48 PM PDT by Jonty30
Do their votes get counted or is just the yea/nay votes that count?
An asterisk? Ah yes...the old Scarlet Letter Gambit. Nice try....effing losers.
Senators who vote present are counted towards a quorum, but only yea or nay votes are counted towards the result.
That’s good.|
Thank you.
Clarence Thomas wears his asterisk as a badge of honor. He’s a conservative hero and so will be Kavanaugh.
Excellent
If he gets 51 yea votes he’s in.
For fun...
Pertinent rules of the Judicial Committee (not the whole Senate):
1. Seven Members of the Committee, actually present, shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of discussing business. Nine Members of the Committee, including at least two Members of the minority, shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting business. No bill, matter, or nomination shall be ordered reported from the Committee, however, unless a
majority of the Committee is actually present at the time such action is taken and a majority of those present support the action taken.
2. For the purpose of taking down sworn testimony, a quorum of the Committee and each Subcommittee thereof, now or hereafter appointed, shall consist of one Senator.
IV. BRINGING A MATTER TO A VOTE
The Chairman shall entertain a non-debatable motion to bring a matter before the Committee to a vote. If there is objection to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with eleven votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority.
However...
Senate Rule XXVI
3) The vote of any committee to report a measure or matter shall require the concurrence of a majority of the members of the committee who are present.
What happens if he only gets 46 yea votes and no nay votes, because the rest are just voting present?
They will all vote no. Their party is locked down on this nominee, totally invested in his defeat. No departure from party orders will be tolerated. The base would rebel.
So...if democrats on committee walk out when time to vote, will that prevent a vote?
They will play every dirty trick they can.
Unless he "grows in Office" as some previously conservative Justices have done.
Manchin and Donnely are considered possible ‘yea’ votes.
Though, like you, I expect them to follow the Party.
Follow those socialists to their own demise I hope !!
They will vote no because they are the resistance.
Then the President should call a nationwide address and ask the people to remove Democratic Senators and congressmen from office. (He should do that anyway)
I expect they’ll do just that.
Since the superseding Senate Rule requires just a majority I expect there’s a way for the whole Senate to discharge the nomination from committee.
But, of course, that’s more drama.
It counts as no vote at all.
A quorum in the full senate is 51 members present. An up or down vote only requires a majority of the quorum.
Got a point there. I’m assuming full participation.
Not sure how Reid’s new rule works either.
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