“McConnell wants to change the rules so that lower-court nominees can be confirmed by a simple majority vote”
I don’t get it. I thought they already did that. For sure, they just need a simple majority for SCOTUS and Circuit Judges. So lower court judges require more than that? That doesn’t make sense.
That doesn’t make sense.
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Nothing Republicans do makes sense. The party of self defeat.
“I don’t get it. I thought they already did that.”
I think that the article fails to discuss the current requirement that allows each Senator up to 30 hours of debate on each nominee. McConnell has reportedly reduced that to 2 hours recently. As I see it, it isn’t the lowering the final vote to a simple majority, it’s cutting out the crap that allows the RATs to string out each nomination and in so doing, cut the overall number of nominees they can entertain in a Congressional Session.