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.
The Senate parliamentarian is currently Elizabeth MacDonough, who has been in that position since 2012. It is supposed to be a non-partisan position, but in practice, the parliamentarian can be highly partisan, for what that is worth (absolutely nothing, no power except to regulate the framing of parliamentary questions put to the Senate)
The headline should be - Republicans in the Senate bring order back after rebellious Democrats break with long-standing tradition and practice to filibuster, for the first time ever, a President's nomination to fill a Supreme Court vacancy.
Nuke em Dano! Oh wait that was book em Dano. Well, you know what I mean. Nuke em to smithereens!
Doing it now, I think.
Trump needs this victory badly. It looks like the GOP has finally grown a pair.
Correct, and a NAY vote is the one that the GOP was after. The chair ruled that a 60 vote supermajority was appropriate. The Senate rejected the ruling of the chair.
That is already concluded with success. Now voting on cloture, which now requires simple majority.
And Ruth Buzzy Ginzberg too.
The Tao of TRUMP
Go Pepe!
I like it. The Reps should use these votes against the incumbent Dems up for reelection in 2018. Tester, Donnelly, McCaskill, etc.
Nope. But Manchin voted with the pubbies.
It still galls me every time I hear his name called that a moron like Al Franken sits in the US Senate.
Yes, absolutely.
Our guys have done a good thing. After this is over we need to congratulate them loud and often. This wasn’t easy and we need to reward good behavior
After this cloture vote, I predict several Dems will vote for the nomination so they can try and have it both ways with the constituents.
Indeed. But the appearance of balls is really overblown. As you point out, the DEMS were attempting to plow new ground with Gorsuch. They were attempting to set a precedent of minority veto for SCOTUS nominees. That had never been done before. Garland (and in a different fashion, Miers) was opposed by a majority of Senators.
All that happened today was status quo was preserved. The GOP wouldn't use minority veto to block the appointment of a communist to SCOTUS, so nothing is lost to either side today.
Historical? Sure. Substantial change in practice? Nope.
No he did not. The vote was straight party line.
IT’S OVAH!!!!!
It is done. They now have 50 votes for cloture. Next the vote on Gorsuch.
Thank you Jesus! Thank you Dingy Hairy! (not to conflate the two)
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