How Republicans Can Block Stephen Breyer’s Replacement (Good News for America Alert)

Time ^ | January 26, 2022 | Philip Elliott

[Zakeet]

Within moments of widespread media reports that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire when the current term ends this summer, the Washington parlor game of making a short list of judges President Joe Biden might consider to replace him began. ...

There’s one major problem facing Biden’s prospects, though: he might not be able to win confirmation for the expected pick.

[Snip]

But the nuclear option can go into motion only if the Judiciary Committee reports the nomination to the floor, a procedural move that says whether a majority on the committee recommends the full Senate consider the pick. Well, in a little-noticed backroom deal that took more than a month to hammer out, McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to a power-sharing plan in February that splits committee membership, staffs and budgets in half.

Why does this matter? If all 11 Republican members of the Judiciary Committee oppose Biden’s pick and all 11 Democrats back her, the nomination goes inert. (A pretty safe bet in a committee where at least half of the Republican members have White House ambitions of their own.) The nomination doesn’t die, but it does get parked until a lawmaker—historically, the Leader of the party—brings it to the floor for four hours of debate.

A majority of the Senate—51 votes, typically—can then put debate about the issue on the calendar for the next day. But that’s the last easy part. When the potential pick comes to the floor again, it’s not as a nomination. At that point, it’s a motion to discharge, a cloture motion that requires 60 votes. In other words, 10 Republicans would have to resurrect the nomination of someone already blocked in the Judiciary Committee.

[italianquaker]

Yes they will, the republicans will vote to help the rats

[SuperLuminal]

They’ll roll over and spread their legs...
Then, after the communist bitch is confirmed, they will spend all their time talking about how they fought against her...

Surrender monkeys are as surrender monkeys do...

[Blood of Tyrants]

I can see Schumer finding some excuse to dismiss a Republican from the committee.

[TBP]

Don’t tell the Dhimmicraps, but there is a way around the 60 votes that doesn’t involve nuking the filibuster — the two speeches rule. Senators are allowed only two speeches a day. If you never adjourn, it’s the same “legislative day.” You essentially stop the clock.

[faucetman]

“Editor’s Note: The original version of this story incorrectly stated that Republicans could use Senate rules to block a Biden Supreme Court nomination. It was based on the author’s incorrect analysis of a May 13, 2021, Congressional Research Service report. The Senate will require a majority of votes to approve Justice Stephen Breyer’s replacement, not 60 votes.”

[Stanwood_Dave]

Question, question, I have a question.

As someone who grew up in / on Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

Population at my High School was a very close to an equal:
1/3rd Black,
1/3rd White,
1/3rd Puerto Rican.
School year I graduated 1970-71. Are you ready for this, the graduated class size (12th grade / senior class size was just over 1,400 {one thousand-four hundred} IIRC, or dam close to it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentwood_High_School_(New_York)

1970–1980
On June 27, 1971, the last Brentwood senior class graduated together as one 1,400 body of students enjoying the now demolished Commack Arena as the commencement site.

I was in the last class size, before the school was split into 2 (two) distinct & separate High School(s.)
Brentwood Ross High School & Brentwood Sonderling High School

The question: How Black is Black enough?

It was said about obummer, he was "light-skined" by yours truly U.S. Senator from Maryland, now acting POTUS Joe-Bite-Me.

Is that a racist question when a conservative asks, but if a democRAT asks, (U.S. Senator from Maryland, now acting POTUS Joe-Bite-Me) it's perfectly fine?

My question if you will, comes from what I personally experienced / witnessed through the 3 (three) years of High School, 10th-12th grades. FYI Junior High was 7th-9th grades.

Now living 50 miles dead north of the SAN-FRAN-FREAK-O of the north, formerly known as Seattle, located in the People's Republic of Washington (state, not D.C.)

[Vigilanteman]

These are the current GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, Ranking Member
Chuck Grassley, Iowa
John Cornyn, Texas
Mike Lee, Utah
Ted Cruz, Texas
Josh Hawley, Missouri
Tom Cotton, Arkansas
John Kennedy, Louisiana
Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee
Thom Tillis, North Carolina

At least three are RINOs.

[bIlluminati]

Portman left the U.S. Senate in January, 2023. Unless there is another Senator Portman. The junior Senator from Ohio is now J. D. Vance.