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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Well, the battle lines are drawn aren’t they?
Theoretically, Chuck Schumer and his Democrats could threaten or mount a filibuster.
But then, especially given Harry Reid doing the nuclear option on other presidential nominees, it would be tempting for Mitch McConnell and the GOP to invoke the nuclear option for Supreme Court nominees.
I predict that, if the Democrats let this nomination proceed, that we don’t see a showdown over the nuclear option. I think the GOP will only go there, if they feel their backs are against the wall.
Though whats good for the goose is good for the gander. Harry Reid and Democrats decided to do the nuclear option for presidential nominees. How can they be intellectually honest, and oppose the GOP doing the same, now that the shoe is on the other foot, and the GOP controls the Senate now??
In the PC world, an accusation is proof positive, unless the accusation is against a liberal, then it’s not even an accusation.
I have to laugh at some of the liberal pablum being spewed about Judge Gorsuch.
I hear that he is in favor of dirty air and dirty water. He actually favors despoiling the environment. He opposes food safety; he actually wants us to get sick from eating decayed food. He opposes aid to autistic children.
MY God, this man is a monster, if you listen to the liberals on this guy.
Rule of thumb: The left accuses the right of what they’re guilty of doing.
Since they love to misuse Jefferson for their "separation of church and state" ideology, they should consider his strong views on presidential actions in the final months of a term:
Are not these strong statements on the subject from the mind of the genius who authored the nation's Declaration of Independence pertinent to current discussions?"I have thought it right to take no part myself in proposing measures, the execution of which will devolve on my successor. I am therefore chiefly an unmeddling listener to what others say. On the same ground, I shall make no new appointments which can be deferred... thinking it fair to leave to my successor to select the agents for his own administration." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1808. ME 12:219
"I should not feel justified in directing measures which those who are to execute them would disapprove." --Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 1808. ME 12:195
"[My predecessor in the office of the President made several] last appointments to office... [which] were among my most ardent political enemies, from whom no faithful cooperation could ever be expected, and laid me under the embarrassment of acting through men whose views were to defeat mine, or to encounter the odium of putting others in their places. It seems but common justice to leave a successor free to act by instruments of his own choice." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804. ME 11:29
"It would be with extreme reluctance that, so near the time of my own retirement, I should proceed to name any high officer, especially one who must be of the intimate councils of my successor, and who ought of course to be in his unreserved confidence." --Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 1808. ME 12:64
"It is but common decency to leave to my successor the moulding of his own business." --Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1793. ME 9:12
“I predict that, if the Democrats let this nomination proceed, that we don’t see a showdown over the nuclear option.”
Easy prediction since if the democrats let it proceed, there is no requirement for a nuclear option.
sad part is that the liberals actually believe the crap which is spewed by the media talking heads.
This is all about uniting the left after Sanders and Clinton cheated him, and to not have the message about how much the Dems lost.
Very impressive.
I understand this interpretation has been adhered to for nearly all administrations.
“...longstanding rules requiring 60 votes...”
Nothing in the Constitution says we need 60 votes.
The Dems are all about “majority rule”, right?
So... we’re the Majority.
All better... See!
New MAGA (post-election) theme song: “One Way, Or Another!” by Debbie Harry of Blondie.
...The Dems are all about “majority rule”, right?....
Don’t forget that the rules are always different for Democrats.
Pence is getting an office in the House like Cheney. Going to be interesting when Ryan doesnt cooperate.
Yep you’re right. What I was trying to say and didn’t say too clearly, is that the GOP really doesn’t want a battle over the nuclear option. They would be happy to sidestep that whole issue.
“...the rules are always different for Democrats...”
Not the rules of Karma, friend... it bites EVERYONE in the ass the same. Karma is ALL about “equality”...
Some of them will have to realize that they aren't going to get that seat back. They have two years before they might have any leverage and four before they can possibly pick seats.
The nomination is not going to be withdrawn, so the only way to name a different justice is to vote this one down. But that isn't very likely to happen if it comes to a vote.
But say that it does happen and they can somehow manage to sink this nomination as "revenge" against the GOP for Garland and against Trump just because. Trump's already revealed a list of judges he'd name. Goresuch would be followed with someone similar in ideology. Not with Garland. Not with a compromise candidate. There is no reason to even propose a compromise candidate.
So sinking Goresuch only harms a man who has no part in the fight and takes away from him his one opportunity at the highest point his career could ever take, but doesn't harm anyone the opposition thinks have wronged them. And the outcome will be the same.
Happy to see Vice President Pence sending a message to Dems that obstructionism isn’t going to work on denying Judge Gorsuch a seat on SCOTUS.
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