Posted on 04/06/2017 7:53:11 AM PDT by Dave346
At 11:00 a.m, the Senate will VOTE on cloture for Exec. Cal. #33, Neil Gorsuch, of Colorado, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Hairy Reid is probably spinning in his grave .... Oh Wait !!
Thank you Hairy for developing and perfecting the Reid Nuke for all to use.
Missed how Collins voted on this one
FDR wanted to expand the court.
Hopefully those exercise bands are spinning him
:-)
DEMs will (did) point to Garland and used that as an example of a righteous filibuster of a nominee.
-- The Dems are the ones who are really changing the rules by filibustering Gorsuch. --
Quite true. I'm not sure I'd call it "the rules," but Senate custom has always been to allow complete deference to majority, on SCOTUS nominees. All that is happening with Gorsuch is that this custom is being institutionalized and protected against gaming Rule XXII to allow a minority veto of a SCOTUS nominee.
April 6, 2017 9:30am PDT
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Graham, McCain, Collins, Corker, Murkowski — the most hesitant Republicans on Reid Rule/nuclear option — all vote for it.
April 6, 2017 12:28pm EDT
Are they voting on the nuclear option now?
Who is this palinentarian person?
He represents NY, and I really resent that.
I can’t even look at him, yet alone listen to his squealy, judgemental, aristocratic voice.
The nuke has been armed.
Now taking the cloture vote again, this time a simple majority is sufficient to limit debate.
Cloture vote.
Cloture vote.
48-52 party line vote - all Republicans held together, all Dems voted to continue filibuster. The No votes needed to prevail as this was a vote to affirm the Chair’s ruling against McConnell.
Now voting to stop debate and move forward with the confirmation vote.
Yes, in a sense. It’s a weird vote. Basically McConnell says ‘I want to do away with the filibuster rule’. The Senate President has to say ‘No, you can’t’. So now McConnell says I want to vote to ‘overrule’ the Senate President’s objection. He’s says, ‘Do you support the Senate President’s objection’. So it’s the NO votes that count, not the YES votes. If the NAYS prevail, the Senate President is overruled and McConnell can kill the filibuster.
Voting to end debate.
Did I just ear Collins with a NO?
Thanks.
And they are wrong. There was no filibuster of Garland.
The selection of a SCOTUS nominee has always been political. The Dems do a better job of selecting their nominees who seem to alway adhere to the liberal line, never wavering or crossing to the other side. The Reps have not been so astute with their choices.
Given the growing power of the courts to legislate from the bench, we need to be more partisan, not less.
Per Fox News’ Chad Pergram:
The Senate has voted for the nuclear option, establishing a new threshold to break filibusters for Supreme Court nominees.
The vote was 48 yeas to 52 nays
The nays prevailed, overruling the chair and establishing a new precedent.
This will entail a revote later to break the filibuster using the new precedent.That will just be a simple majority.
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