Posted on 02/04/2017 12:43:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Vice President Mike Pence pledged Saturday that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will join the nation's highest court "one way or the other."
Pence made the pledge during a speech in Philadelphia to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. His remarks echoed President Donald Trump's comments from earlier in the week in which the president urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to "go nuclear" and scrap longstanding rules requiring 60 votes if Democrats move to block Gorsuch.
A least one Democratic senator has vowed to block Gorsuch's nomination as payback for McConnell's decision to wait until after the Nov. 8 election to fill the opening created by the February 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Senate held no hearings or votes on the Supreme Court candidate that President Barack Obama put forward.
Trump on Tuesday announced Gorsuch, 49, a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, as his choice to succeed the conservative Scalia.
Pence said Gorsuch had already met with 12 senators from both political parties and is willing to meet with all 100 senators. The vice president said a candidate to become an associate justice on the nation's highest court had never faced a successful filibuster and "Judge Neil Gorsuch should not be the first."
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“Putting Senator Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao in the Transportation Department may have been the shrewdest move Pres Trump as made to date.”
I agree with you, and couldn’t understand the hand-wringing from a bunch of Freepers when she was nominated.
Reid went nuclear on lower court nominees, a judicial nominee is a judicial nominee. The precedent has been sent.
Pence may be the tie-breaker - Trump continues to put a grin on my face.
You aren't serious, are you?
When the Demonrats have the advantage, they take the high road so the presstitutes can demonize the Repubs.
When the Demonrats are at a disadvantage, they bring guns and machetes to a fist fight.
If you read any of Podesta's emails, you know there is nothing honest about the Rats.
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