Posted on 04/10/2017 4:33:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
Markey Claims That Dems will Restore Filibuster for Supreme Court Nominees
Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) claimed Monday that Democrats will restore the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees once his party retakes the majority in the Senate.
"When the Democrats return to the majority and capture the presidency, which we will," Markey said, "that day is going to arrive [and] we will restore the 60-vote margin."
"We will ensure that for the Supreme Court, there is that special margin that any candidate has to reach because that is essential to ensuring that our country has a confidence in those people who are nominated," Markey added. "Rather than just someone who passes a litmus test."
MSNBC host Katy Tur asked Markey earlier in the interview whether he and Democrats had regrets about opposing President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, who was sworn in on Monday. Democrats mounted the votes to filibuster Gorsuch, a rarity for Supreme Court picks.
Markey castigated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and Senate Republicans for invoking the so-called "nuclear option" by lowering the cloture threshold from 60 votes to a simple majority of 51. He called their move "unprecedented" and said that they "destroyed" the Supreme Court nomination process.
The Senate then confirmed Gorsuch last Friday with a 54-45 vote in favor of his nomination, and he was officially sworn in on Monday.
This tactic was used by Senate Republicans to overcome the filibuster effort by Democrats, but it was initiated by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev) and Senate Democrats in 2013 when they controlled the chamber, the Washington Free Beacon reported:
Senate Democrats first employed the nuclear option back in 2013 to advance former President Obama's judicial nominations, although the Supreme Court was not included in the rule change. The move was used to circumvent Republican efforts to filibuster some of Obama's nomineesThree and a half years later, Democrats have threatened to filibuster the nomination of Gorsuch, President Trump's pick for the nation's highest court. The Senate's 52 Republicans threatened to use the nuclear option to break the filibuster and did so on Thursday.
Markey Claims Democrats Will Restore 60-Vote Threshold for Supreme Court Nominees
If this moron truly believes this, then he is a bigger asshole than previously thought.
The “good news” is that Ed Malarkey will be long in his grave when the RATs get the opportunity, if they ever do. I expect that in President Trump’s first term, he will get at least two more SCOTUS justices, and possibly three. And he needs to make sure that all three of them are 49 years old, just like Justice Gorsuch. We will then have a “strict constructionist” SCOTUS for the next 20 years at the minimum.
1. Ruth Buzzy will either quit, or more likely just die.
2. Anthony Kennedy will announce his retirement later this year.
3. Stephen Breyer ? but he’s 81 so he may follow the Buzzy route.
Whether they retake the majority will depend on the success (or lack therof) of VP Pence’s Special Commission.
I haven’t heard one update on their progress, if there is any, being made.
If they don’t clean it up, and I mean REALLY clean it up, we will indeed lose to their fraud.
“Markey is known as one of the least intelligent members of the Senate...”
You’re leaving out Susan ( I’m in my tennies) Murray of WA. When you are considering dumb and dumber, she’s dumbest! Stabenow fills the “dumber” slot!
Markey is known as one of the least intelligent members of the Senate...
Right down there with Tim Kain.
He is of course dumb enough to actually enunciate this complete lying BS for the democrats.
Markey? Malarkey!
“...this is such an obvious fairy tale...”
Never underestimate scu&bags.
IMHO
Yeah right. Yes, if the Dems gain control of the Senate in 2018, they could restore the threshold to 60 votes for a SCOTUS nominee to stop a Rep President. However, if a Dem gets in the WH and they retain control of the Senate, they will resort to the nuclear option as they did before.
That’s what I think also...And pretty young at that...
Best idea: don’t let Dem-wits back in power. Ever
Um, what is this guy saying? As soon as we re-gain the majority we’ll restore rights to the minority?
I suppose I might believe that about some political party somewhere in the Universe, but about the Dem Party of the USA of Earth, no, I don’t believe it for a second.
My ass they will. These despicable sobs were the first to launch filibusters against court appointees in the first place. They won’t reinstate it without a 60 40 margin in the senate and that ain’t happening any time soon
Does it matter? Republicans rolled over and allowed liberal lawmaking Constitution revisionists Sotomayor and Kagan to be confirmed.
YES! Keep doing the same thing that you did during the LAST Election, and two decades BEFORE THAT, and you will succeed he he
But they ain't there yet!!!
How funding things in America gets done...
Ed; what do wannabe when you grow up?
Malarkey.
Democrats 60 votes
Republicans 54 or 51 votes
Supreme Court AND Legislation
Sounds fair.
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