Posted on 04/03/2017 8:37:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, won approval Monday on a party-line vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, setting the stage for a filibuster showdown on the Senate floor later this week.
At the same meeting, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware announced he would provide the crucial 41st vote need to support the threatened Democratic-led filibuster of Gorsuch.
The committee's 11 Republicans all endorsed Gorsuch as a well-qualified conservative judge whose record "falls well within the mainstream," as committee chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) put it.
All nine Democrats opposed Gorsuch. They faulted the Republican nominee for refusing to answer their questions about his views of the Constitution and about his record as a Justice Department lawyer under President George W. Bush.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said documents showed Gorsuch had defended "enhanced interrogation" techniques, including water boarding, but then said he had no specific recollection of this during his hearings.
The sharp partisan divide was on display during the committee's markup session. For more than four hours, the senators took turns explaining the basis for their votes.
The Republicans said they are amazed and dismayed that the Democrats would not support such a qualified nominee who pledges to follow the law. "If they oppose Neil Gorsuch, they will oppose any nominee of this president," said Sen John Cornyn (R-Texas).
The Democrats said they saw signs Gorsuch will be a conservative activist on the bench, not a neutral judge. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) predicted Gorsuch will help form "a new right-wing gang of five" that protects corporations and big-money interests at the expense of ordinary citizens.
The nomination now moves to the Senate floor, where the minority Democrats have pledged to vote against cutting off the debate. Under the current rules, it takes 60 votes to invoke "cloture"
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Constitutionalize the demondog.
Historic in the sense that the dems are all-in on Trump derangement.
They’ll regret it, just as they regret bringing up the nuclear option in the first place.
Man, if they hate this one, wonder how much they’ll hate the next one who will replace one of the incredibly liberal seats on the bench? Or the next one?
Even the uber-liberal ABA says he’s OK
The Democrat Party is placing itself way out of the mainstream these days.
There is no such thing as a conservative activist judge. A conservative upholds the law, including the supreme law of the land, the constitution. An activist judge makes law, which by definition make him a modern liberal.
Right wing gang of five sounds great. When Ruthie croaks, it will be right wing gang of six.
Nuclear option should have been done by our side before. It doesn’t hurt us since our side always almost always gives them enough votes for their nominee. Good grief, they got ultra far leftist Ruthie with an overwhelming vote of 96-3.
McConnell should nuke ‘em. Dingy Harry had NO problem changing the rules when Obama wanted the lower courts stacked with his ideology and Republicans barely whimpered. Gorsuch is a REPLACEMENT for a very Conservative SP judge who died unexpectedly (Scalia). The Democraps will hoot and holler and scream “UNPRECEDENTED!!!”, but let them. Everyone knows they are raving hypocrites and are blocking Gorsuch out of spite towards Trump. DO NOT LET THEM!
-—At the same meeting, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware announced he would provide the crucial 41st vote need to support the threatened Democratic-led filibuster of Gorsuch.-—
Coons is only there because Christine O’Donnell was scrood over by the GOPe. Regardless what anyone thinks of her, she not only would have thrown a wrench in the 0bamacare works, but Chris Coons would not be here doing this now.
Just for the record, lest anyone thinks they ever were on our side.
Strategic mistake by the ‘Rats.
They will force a change to the senate rules, which will give Trump room for more-conservative nominees for the future vacancies.
We should flood the critters with little blue pills.
(Not Tylenol PM) Pull the trigger boys!
Yes after Judge Sleepy is gone, it will be fun to watch, hope it is around election time.
The filibastards will lose.
what did the rats do to get all of bammys monkeys in?....do the same...
“Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) predicted Gorsuch will help form “a new right-wing gang of five” “
And in the next few months or perhaps a year or two, it will become the “new right wing gang of eight” with Ruth Buzzy, Kennedy, and Breyer leaving the Court. Leaving “The Wise Latrina” and the “Fat Yenta” as the remaining Lefties. Just hope that President Trump picks replacements who are in their forties, so that the Court says Conservative for the next thirty years at the minimum.
“The Democraps will hoot and holler and scream “UNPRECEDENTED!!!”, but let them. “
And don’t think if the roles were reversed that the RATs wouldn’t change the rules in a heartbeat.
“We should flood the critters with little blue pills.”
Unfortunately, the “recipients” would need to have penises for that to work. RINOs are born “sans male equipment!”
Gang of 7. Whitehouse is counting Kennedy as part of the five.
I forget that they are pretty much life-size Ken dolls.
My sister’s Barbie was always running off with my GI Joe.
It all makes sense now.
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