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I saw this online...

-McConnell and Chucky Cheese agreed to a
power-sharing plan in February that splits
committee membership in half.

~The powerful Senate Judiciary Committee
has 11 Dems and 11 Repubs (most of whom
are hardline Cons, like Cruz and Hawley).

~Under the agreement, which Harris does
not play *any* role in, if there is a tie in
the motion to advance the nominee out
of Commitee, the nomination is rendered
“inert”. Meaning it’s essentially tabled.

~What that means under Senate rules is
Schumer can still bring the nomination to the
floor for a vote, and override the commitee.
However, however, however.because the
nominee was not advanced by a majority of
the commitee it faces a filibuster and he has
to invoke cloture.

-If you’ve studied civics with me, you’ll know
that you need *60* votes to invoke cloture,
otherwise you face a Republican filibuster.

-In short, unless Graham, Hawley, Cruz, or
some other Republican on the committee,
breaks ranks, Biden’s Nominee will need TEN
Republicans and *all* Dems to be confirmed.

Not gonna happen.

-If you’ve studied civics with me, you’ll know
that you need *60* votes to invoke cloture,
otherwise you face a Republican filibuster.

-In short, unless Graham, Hawley, Cruz, or
some other Republican on the committee,
breaks ranks, Biden’s Nominee will need TEN
Republicans and *all* Dems to be confirmed.

Not gonna happen.

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this makes my day

thank you for the deconstruction

I reviewed this a bit earlier. As I have this little job, I cannot post regularly all day, every day, though I do have lots of free time.

I am seeing that what is likely to occur is that the Democrats will simply ignore this understanding. The Media will report as if it has never existed.

The nomination will go to the full Senate, she will be approved and nothing will be done in protest. The Republicans could insist on the terms of the agreement of February 2021, but Schumer will simply ignore them.

The Rats cannot get 60 votes, the Senate could be asked for a Cloture Vote, a tie would bring in Harris to break it. This has likely all been agreed to already. This is our Senate.

Several sites deal with the issue. I focused on this one.

https://directemployers.org/2021/02/07/senate-agrees-on-rules-of-the-road-as-to-committee-assignments-and-tie-votes-looks-like-democrats-will-need-10-republicans-to-cross-over-to-pass-controversial-legislation-for-the-next-two-years-kamal/