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A Roadblock to the Court for Neil Gorsuch
The New York Times ^ | March 24, 2017 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 03/24/2017 9:55:39 AM PDT by Trump20162020

Senate Republicans had to know there would be a price for their unprecedented theft of President Barack Obama’s final Supreme Court pick last year.

On Thursday, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, named it: Either find 60 votes to overcome a filibuster of President Trump’s extremely conservative nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, or find another, more moderate choice.

The last four Supreme Court nominees — two from Mr. Obama and two from President George W. Bush — all met the 60-vote threshold, Mr. Schumer said, so it was fair to require the same of Judge Gorsuch.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desperation; fakenews; fakestreammedia; filibuster; gorsuch; kkkrule; liberalagenda; neilgorsuch; nuclearoption; nyslimes; pedoalliance; reidrule; supremecourt; trump
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To: Alberta's Child

11 SITTING Dem senators voted for him for the Federal judgeship....including Schumer.


21 posted on 03/24/2017 10:08:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Trump20162020

Losers whining every day.


22 posted on 03/24/2017 10:08:58 AM PDT by Fhios
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To: Trump20162020

Reid has already declared that “the senate is no longer a slow, deliberative body” in cases he thought were too important. He tried to qualify that in order to blame Rs for future uses. But the change was done and minorities are not deserving of respect from majorities.

He left no doubt that the filibuster is no longer a tool the minority can use if the majority doesn’t want it. Ds will not allow Rs to use it in the future. Rs have no reason to leave it when it inconveniences them.


23 posted on 03/24/2017 10:09:20 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: Trump20162020

Nuke the democRATs! Done....


24 posted on 03/24/2017 10:10:23 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Sacajaweau
11 SITTING Dem senators voted for him for the Federal judgeship....including Schumer.

"Pizza" Schumer was for Gorsuch before he was against Gorsuch. :)

25 posted on 03/24/2017 10:10:46 AM PDT by kiryandil
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To: Trump20162020

The nuclear option, all you need is 51 votes out of 101. Screw decorum, the Progs would do no less.


26 posted on 03/24/2017 10:12:04 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Trump20162020

This so called editorial board talks like it is doing way too many recreational drugs. Way too many. Saying that Gorsuch should be required to get 60 votes in the political atmosphere of hatred in this country is totally insane and retarded. White Americans bent over and kissed Obonzo’s ass for eight years so as to not become labeled as a “racist”. Now, we see black and brown people running around screaming that President Trump is “not their president” because he is not black, brown, yellow, and does not have a vagina. This country has gone totally insane. In the current political atmosphere, Jesus Christ could not get 60 votes in the sewer some call a Senate. Screw the “democrats”. Time for the GOP to nuke the ‘RATS.


27 posted on 03/24/2017 10:12:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: Trump20162020
"theft"? "extremely conservative"? "fair"?

I really hate socialists. I no longer will call them liberals. They are pure socialists, if not communists. FOAD NY Times.

28 posted on 03/24/2017 10:14:57 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Trump20162020

This looks like a job for Operation PayBork! Seems now's the time to bring it back!

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29 posted on 03/24/2017 10:15:26 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: Trump20162020
Senate Republicans had to know there would be a price for their unprecedented theft of President Barack Obama’s final Supreme Court pick last year.

Great opening sentence to the NY TIMES/Soros latest propaganda slime.

30 posted on 03/24/2017 10:16:19 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: rktman

If the NYT board only had a brain...


31 posted on 03/24/2017 10:17:26 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Trump20162020
Senate Republicans had to know there would be a price for their unprecedented theft of President Barack Obama’s final Supreme Court pick last year.

UNPRECEDENTED!!!!

(except, of course, it happens so often there is a name for it: The Thurmond Rule)

BUT IGNORE THAT!!!!1! IT'S UNPRECEDENTED!!1`11!

This is why they are known as the #NewFakeTimes

32 posted on 03/24/2017 10:18:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: kiryandil

Pubbies need to drive home the point that if Gorsuch is not deemed qualified for SCOTUS, then no one is!
And then hang the term “obstructionist” around the neck of Schumer and every other member of the Dhim party, every chance they get!
Then, go ahead and use the N.O. and let Dhims scream their ass hats off every time it is used over the next 4, hopefully 8, years!


33 posted on 03/24/2017 10:19:25 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Trump20162020

“A Roadblock to the Court for Neil Gorsuch”

The filibuster does not belong on this road at all. If the Democrats put it there it won’t be a roadblock; it will be roadkill.


34 posted on 03/24/2017 10:21:14 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: Trump20162020

Make the Democrats conduct an actual filibuster rather than the procedural fantasy. An actual filibuster would expose the Democrats as the real disruptors in government.


35 posted on 03/24/2017 10:22:12 AM PDT by monocle
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To: samantha
Upchuckie always seems high,I wonder if he has something funny smeared on his glasses within easy snorting.

That, and Trump keeps him away from his favorite Pizza parlor.

36 posted on 03/24/2017 10:24:16 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: Glad2bnuts
The nuclear option, all you need is 51 votes out of 101. Screw decorum, the Progs would do no less.

They should stop calling it the "Nuclear Option" and start calling it after its author: the "Reid Option".

37 posted on 03/24/2017 10:27:09 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: Trump20162020

Where in the Constitution do I look for super-majority requirement for judicial appointments?


38 posted on 03/24/2017 10:29:44 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“Love it. They’re going to push the GOP to the nuclear option.”

And pave the way for three or four more SCOTUS appointments by President Trump. Ruth “ACLU” Buzzy will be gone this year for openers, because it won’t be “fun” anymore to be on the court as a permanent minority.


39 posted on 03/24/2017 10:39:09 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: truth_seeker
Right next to the part about abortions and permits for firearms. See it? It's right there. 🦄🌈🕋
40 posted on 03/24/2017 10:40:14 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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