My goodness! What would be the maximum?
Posted on 01/22/2017 7:40:41 AM PST by ColdOne
Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that he is prepared to leave open the ninth seat on the Supreme Court.
“If the nominee is not bipartisan and mainstream, we absolutely will keep the seat open,” Schumer told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Schumer said he is prepared to fight "tooth and nail" should Trump not choose a mainstream nominee.
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“Bipartisan and mainstream”
‘Like all four of the Dim appts, Chuck?’
They may as well have been, for all the resistance they got from the Uniparty.
Schumer is used to the GOP caving when their nominees hit resistance. Trump is not like that. He will hammer Schumer publicly until the Dem brand stinks like a rotting whale carcass. The game isn’t being played by the old rules anymore.
The sonofabitch is a career politician who has *never* had a job of any kind in the private sector. Eff a bunch of Schumer.
Geez that’s terrifying. Grounds for CW II
At the very minimum it should be someone like Scalia.
This is good. Now there’s no reason for the GOP to maintain the filibuster rule for SCOTUS appointments. He’s going to be intransigent and unreasonable. So let’s accommodate him by killing the filibuster rule.
Then its time to focus on*2016* and 2020 to remove them and other RINOs
Trump has schumer right where he needs him, shooting his big mouth off to no end.
Now Trump needs to start working some deals with some democrat senators who need to look good for re-election in two years.
Change the Rules to require a simple majority and call it the Harry Reid rule.
Schumer needs to check his Lily White, Leftist Commie Privilege.
“At the very minimum it should be someone like Scalia.”
My goodness! What would be the maximum?
Same song and dance from just after the election...
Two months later, same exact statements.
Cloture used to be 67 votes until Mondale.
That is exactly correct. The filibuster is still in place for Supreme Court nominees. If I understand correctly, should the Supreme Court vote tie, it will go back to its lower court which President Trump (I love saying that) can load up with conservatives
Nope.
Not on the Supremes.
2/3’s are required.
BUT...it’s the only card Chucky holds. (though a high card)
All the repubs have to do is force him to give up that card.
If he wants to play in anything else for at least 2 years, he’ll need to give up that card.
Trump is good at painting the picture outside of the media.
He can paint Schumer (and the dems) as purely obstructionist.
Remember, the repubs played ball with the dems, for Kagan and Sotomayor.
Time to call those markers in,
If Schumer and company want to see any cushy committee seats.
And in training up to accomplish this Trump should go for the more Conservative Constitutionalist appointments, and then expand to correct the entire Federal Judiciary, District and Appellate Courts.
There are legal, Constitutional ways to turn the Courts Constitutionalist using Executive orders, Appointments, and a cooperative simple majority Congress.
My goodness! What would be the maximum?
There is no way for the Dems to block the Senate from going into recess.
After three to five days of recess a ‘recess appointment’ is uncontroversial.
No need to have a special recess, the Senators always want to recess LOL!
...already this back stabbing jew bastard with his interference format.
There are enough Rinos that would support the Dems to not kill the filibuster rule for SCOTUS appointments. Let me name a few: McCain, Graham, Flake, Sasse, Lee, Rubio, Collins to name a few. McConnell, too and wouldn’t bring the change up for a vote.
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