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.
I like it. The Reps should use these votes against the incumbent Dems up for reelection in 2018. Tester, Donnelly, McCaskill, etc.
Many thanks to you (and others) who are explaining this all in clear terms to those of us who did not get into the weeds of political science and procedures.
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It was miserable for me to watch (so-called conservative) Fox 25 news from Boston after reading the following:
Dustoff45:
“The Dems are the ones who are really changing the rules by filibustering Gorsuch.
“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.”
Cboldt:
“...today’s vote didn’t change anything. There is no Senate practice of minority veto of SCOTUS nominees, never was. The DEMs tried to implement that . . . and lost.
“As Cornyn pointed out, the practice of minority veto of nominees is not some “old senate tradition.” It is a Senate dysfunction, started by the DEMs in 2001. Reid abandoning that in 2013 was a bigger deal than today’s vote.”
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Here’s my objection to Fox 25 in Boston:
Their report on this on tonight’s 4:00 p.m. news showed clips only of Schumer (on the Senate floor, objecting), Lindsay Graham talking about what the horrible future implications of today’s votes will be, and (naturally, for Boston) state representative Markey denouncing it.
The anchor then called it an unprecedented move in the Senate. No mention of how long the precedent has existed. No mention of the Democrats’ unprecedented filibuster.
This is what Fox calls “fair and balanced.”
This is what Dems call “right-wing partisan Fox News.”
Well, if so, thank God for FreeRepublic!