Durbin: ‘We Don’t Have the Power’ to Play Hardball on SCOTUS Nominee

Breitbart ^ | June 28,2018 | Ian Hanchett

[Hojczyk]

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that Senate Democrats “don’t have the power” to play “hardball” on the nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked, “[W]hat is the gameplan? And you are saying you don’t think you should play hardball the way the Republicans did?”

Durbin answered, “Well, we don’t have the power. I mean, if we had the power and the authority to make those decisions, it’s one thing. But under the rules — under the rules with Justice Gorsuch, in a matter of three months or so, he went from being nominated by the White House to being approved by the United States Senate. In the meantime, there was vetting, investigation, hearing, questions, votes in the committee, consideration on the floor. But it was on a path where the majority controlled the outcome, and at this point, we don’t have the majority.”

[vette6387]

“If we can put in 4 more SC judges, we can set Liberalism back a generation.”

That may well be Trump’s greatest gift to the country!

[ConservativeWarrior]

Three cheers for the GOP primary voters of 2016 and for the general election voters of 2016. That was the biggest win for freedom in decades.

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Hear, hear.

Imagine if our nominee had been Jeb, Mitt, or Ted. If they’d actually won the general, they’d be “reaching across the aisle” for input on the SC nominations.

We’d have amnesty by now. Same or higher taxes. More mooslimbs. Russia and NK pushing us around. Bowing to the UN. Gun control.

We didn’t dodge a bullet. We dodge an extinction-level meteor.

[aces]

Just nicely and civilly ram it up their a#$ over and over as much as possible while we can..

[Georgia Girl 2]

Dick is smarter than he looks. LOL!

[Conserv]

lol