Posted on 03/27/2017 9:35:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Democrats are delaying for one week an initial committee vote on Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee, said Democrats had requested that the committee's vote on Gorsuch be punted to next week.
"I understand that the minority would like to hold [him] over," Grassley said during the Judiciary Committee's meeting on Monday.
Under committee rules any one member can request that a nomination be held the first time it appears on the agenda.
Democrats were widely expected to delay the committee's vote until next week.
The delay means the committee vote will likely take place on April 3, giving Republicans days to meet their goal of winning Gorsuch's confirmation by the full Senate by the end of that week.
The Senate will then go into a recess.
Democrats are demanding a 60-vote threshold for Gorsuch's approval, but it is unclear whether the party has enough votes to support a filibuster against Trump's nominee.
Republicans have suggested they will change the Senate's rules allowing a filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if Democrats block Gorsuch.
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We need to check rulings on REFUGEES/US Sovereignty issues. Don’t know if he has ruled on that.
We also need some case law to affirm whether or not ALIENS have First Amendment Rights in the USA. Specifically if they can take over a governmental body hearing on political issues thereby through sheer mass numbers dilute US citizen voices.
The way things are going, 2019 should do it. The Republican Party Establishment is stabbing President Trump in the back at every opportunity and sabotaging him in between stabs. The Establishment Republicans have pissed in the face of the Conservatives and continue to do so. The Great Carl Rove was said to have said, “If they [Christians and Conservatives] don’t vote for us, who will they vote for?” 2006, 2008, 2012 should have amply demonstrated to the Republicans what happens when Conservatives and Christians stay home on election day[s]. But they must not care.
We need to approve him and move on. If pubs blow this then we deserve to be labeled as not being able to govern.
...and then what are the voters going to do, re elect them again...just asking...
get him in there, then get rid of ruth buzzi ginsberg
then fast-track the constitutionality of forcing everyone to buy health insurance
"Request" doesn't have to be granted, get a pair Grassley, if the shoe was on the other foot they'd use your "Request" for toilet paper
This is pretty simple.
No April Recess until Gorsuch is voted on, via nuclear option or not.
God forbid they have to give up a couple of days vacation time!
Just keep it up Chuckie so the Turtle Man will have no choice but to go nuclear. Once he goes nuclear on Gorsuch it will be easy to go nuclear on everything else until people don’t remember why 51/49 is even called the “nuclear option.” Bank on it.
Recess appointments last one year, without pay, if I remember correctly.
You show ME on Roberts and Souter!! Total disasters for the country and the constitution.
Any member can request a hold. Where does it say the hold has to be granted?
-—We also need some case law to affirm whether or not ALIENS have First Amendment Rights in the USA. ——
Of course illegal aliens have first amendment rights in this coutry...
That has been settled law for a long time ago..
Go back and read the first amendment. It only pertains to Congress...
As for taking over a public hearing, they don’t run the hearing and should be tossed out if they become a problem...
——You show ME on Roberts and Souter!! Total disasters for the country and the constitution.——
You are getting off the subject...I asked about rulings where Gorsuch on the appellate court let his church teachings impact his rulings.
That was your concern, was it not ?
Is he a left leaning jurist, it doesn’t seem that way, but
Robert’s he pretty much fooled us all...
One way to determine the positions of a person is to follow them to church. We learned that with obama. When you see faggot loving, baby killer, women “priests”run like hell.
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