Posted on 10/22/2020 10:41:16 AM PDT by catnipman
Here’s a look at what will likely happen in the coming week:
McConnell has said he would put the nomination on the floor of the Senate on Friday. McConnell cannot put the nomination forth on the same day it comes out of committee via Senate rules.
When he does put it to the Senate as a whole, he must move the Senate into executive session, meaning that the senators take up that issue alone.
After the nomination is read, McConnell could file cloture – or a measure to end any debate on the nomination – then a day must go by before the Senate can vote on the cloture motion.
Then on Sunday, the cloture petition would be ready for a vote. That vote would curb any filibuster, or debate that would delay the vote on the nomination.
On Sunday, the Senate can begin voting on the cloture petition (to end debate) one hour after the Senate meets.
Once the Senate votes on cloture, opponents may use up to 30 hours on the clock before a final confirmation vote. That means if the Senate votes on Sunday, the final vote on Barrett’s nomination could come as early as Monday.
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“Expect the dims to boycott that too. They will all run and hide like a bunch of roaches.”
First, it will reveal (yet again) how childishly they act when they don’t get their way. People generally dislike the behavior of spoiled children, and have a (somewhat unjustified by past practice) expectation that their elected representatives should act better than a spoiled 4-year-old.
Second, it will short-circuit that 30 hours of delay.
F’em, they started this whole thing with Harry Reid getting rid of the filibuster for all appointments except the SC, in an effort to quickly load up the DC Circuit with Obama’s picks. Since then, in 2014 the people took 5 seats from the Dems and gave them to the Republicans; in 2016 the kept the Senate Republican knowing that Trump was promising to fill the courts with Originalists; in 2018 they gave the Republicans another 2 seats - after Trump had followed through on his promises. So it seems pretty obvious that the American public is fine with what the Republicans are doing WRT the judiciary.
Well, they tried that.
The demonRATs photo shopped a pix of Amy wearing a large double dildo, banging her black adopted daughter, and after 5 negative focus groups, they dropped that idea.
How will Joe Manchin vote? Did he approve Kavanaugh?
How many votes are needed to pass a cloture petition - a simple majority of the entire body, a simple majority of those present, or a 60-senator vote to approve??
Someone just told me yes Manchin was the only Dem to vote
for Kavanaugh. So I expect him to do so for Amy.
Funny that only women Republicans who have not had a GOP
woman on the court since O’connor are against Amy.
I don’t want to hear them ever say women need equal rights
again.
You’re a tyrant
I inherited it from my Patriot ancestors!! :-)
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Cloture on a presidential nomination requires a simple majority of those present and voting. This was changed for all presidential appointments other than Supreme Court nominees in a 21 November 2013 Senate vote (the so-called “nuclear option”),[39] and was further extended to include Supreme Court nominees in an 6 April 2017 Senate vote.”
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We also had Traitor Jeff Flake. With only a 1 seat majority on the committee, Flake was able to prevent voting and force the delay. I'm not sure Mitch would have had the votes had Grassley voted Kavanaugh out of committee without a recommendation. Now we have Graham, a 2 seat majority and no Flake. Also, it's harder to have a circus with an empty gallery. Still your point that Graham is far better than the weak fool Grassley is certainly true, and he allowed the fiasco to happen.
I’ve started wondering about the swearing in process. Doesn’t she have to be sworn in by Roberts before she can take a seat????? And if so one has to wonder about Roberts!!
“How many votes are needed to pass a cloture petition - a simple majority of the entire body, a simple majority of those present, or a 60-senator vote to approve??”
simple majority ... and you can thank Mitch McConnell for that rules change that he and the GOP Senate effected right prior to the Kavanaugh nomination ... during the obama years, Harry Reid had nuked the filibuster for all Fed Judges EXCEPT SCOTUS when the Dems had majority in the Senate, and so Mitch finished the job by nuking the filibuster for SCOTUS ...
“Every conservative nomination to the Supreme Court now has a model on how to handle it down to the dotted I’s and crossed Ts.”
excellent point!
“I’ve started wondering about the swearing in process. Doesn’t she have to be sworn in by Roberts before she can take a seat????? And if so one has to wonder about Roberts!!”
with the exception of presiding over impeachment trials, there’s no mention of chief justice in the US constitution, thus the authority of the chief justice is established entirely by statute or custom.
furthermore, there are very few other clauses about SCOTUS itself in the US constitution and those pertain only to the overall structure of the judiciary
swearing-in is largely ceremonial, and the chief justice is bound by the rules of the court itself anyway, so if anything, failure to swear-in could be considered an impeachable offense, though a pointless one at that ...
Oh good question. Roberts could delay this.
Was that ‘ripped label’ Mattress made in the US of A?
....Just asking for a Democrat friend.
One of my two emailed me back saying she’d base her decision on “precedent”. She probably won’t like me response.
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