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.
Clarence Thomas wears his asterisk as a badge of honor. Hes a conservative hero and so will be Kavanaugh.
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.
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.
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)
It counts as no vote at all.
What if during the time CBF used for stalling that her coaching team come up with last minute some kind of details of when and where (for example), coordinated with the willing press, during her testimony (yes under oath)?
Then Dems and media will cry that they need more time to ‘investigate’, and it is impossible for Grassley to proceed with the scheduled vote on Friday?
They plan to impeach Kavanaugh, when they have enough votes. The vote (re. “asterisk”) would a protest move in that direction, if some of them vote that way.
And we will continue to pray.
God is bigger than the dems and their dirty tricks.
2016 proved that.
I would LOVE for some dems to break rank and vote the right thing.
Then Kavanaugh is in.
I’m wondering what if they don’t show up.
Another DISintegrated mind of a sexist, EVIL, divide-and-conquer collectivist. A total embarrassment to the republic and the rule of law.
A quorum is necessary, but unless they can prevent a quorum (doing so requires fully half of the Senate to be absent), only half-plus-one of the senators present need to vote for a bill.
A quorum call became an issue when McCain was unable to come to the Senate, because if every Democrat was absent, the Republicans would need 51 senators to pass legislation rather than being able to proceed with a majority of 50 out of 99. But apparently purposely fleeing a quorum call can get your ass dragged back to the Senate by the Capital Police! And they would only have to be able to find enough senators to meet a quorum!