Posted on 04/02/2017 1:47:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A third Senate Democrat has announced his intention to vote for Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
"After meeting with Judge Gorsuch, conducting a thorough review of his record, and closely following his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I believe that he is a qualified jurist who will base his decisions on his understanding of the law and is well-respected among his peers," Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly said in a statement.
Donnelly joins Democratic colleagues Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who both pledged last month to vote to confirm Gorsuch, slated to take the seat held by Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016.
Both Donnelly and Heitkamp bemoaned the fact that Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama's nominee to replace Scalia, never got an up-or-down vote.
"I was deeply disappointed by the way the most recent Supreme Court nominee, Judge Garland, was treated by the Senate, but as Senator, I can only vote on the nominee that comes to the Senate floor," Donnelley said....
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That's called killing the filibuster, which was my point.
Rats. So only four more then.
Harry Reid already said the Dems would change the rules on the Filibuster for the Supreme Court. So they already tipped their hand to what they will do if they got power back.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/harry-reid-if-gop-blocks-scotus-in-2017-dems-should-go-nuclear-again
So it's really just beating them to the punch.
Actually Kennedy & most likely Thomas are retiring, Ginsberg is going to die any day now and Breyer at 79 is no spring chicken. So Trump could conceivably get 4-5 picks in his 1st term alone. So it will be a generation before we have to worry about Filibustering a Dems Supreme court pick.
That was the biggest blunder on Reid's part, he assumed Hillary would win and the Dems would take control of the Senate and they would get the 4-5 picks.
They would only eliminate the filibuster for SCOTUS nominations.
I can’t ever recall a time when the GOP filibustered a Dems nominee.
The second the Dems take over the Senate, they will kill the filibuster once and for all.
Dead wrong!
You are a flaming liberal.
Conservatives rarely get to 60 historically.
Liberals often get to 60.
Over time you locked in your lefty liberal mess.
Why 60?? 60 dooms conservatives.
Why not 57, 55, 59, 58, 54??
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.
Constitution says PLURALITY! F OFF 60. Losers.
I really do hope the Dems filibuster Gorsuch. I have no doubt McConnell has the votes to change the rules...this time. For subsequent picks it will be harder, so do it now.
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