Posted on 04/06/2017 9:16:33 AM PDT by servo1969
Senate Republicans deployed the so-called “nuclear option” Thursday afternoon in a bid to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, moving to overcome a Democratic filibuster just minutes earlier.
The Senate initially voted 55-45 on a motion to end debate on Gorsuch, with four Democrats breaking ranks; it needed 60 to succeed. Known as a filibuster, this vote triggered Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to go “nuclear.”
This means he is trying to change Senate precedent so that the Senate can move to a final roll call with just a simple majority of 51 votes, as opposed to 60. If he succeeds, a final confirmation vote would be held Friday.
The dramatic and fast-paced chain of events is poised to significantly change the way the Senate does business. Each party blames the other for the escalation and the breakdown in the Senate’s parliamentary decorum, and the impact could be felt for years, if not decades, to come.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, kicking off Thursday’s session, blasted Democrats for the filibuster attempt and accused them of driving the upper chamber to this point. He said their opposition to Gorsuch isn’t about the nominee but “the man who nominated him” – and part of an “extreme escalation in the left’s never-ending drive to politicize the courts and the confirmation process.”
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I was looking at the post nuke cloture vote which only needed 51 to pass and did.
Your number as to the pre-nuke cloture vote that failed is correct, commie swine Bennett flip flopped post nuke. So he gets zero credit.
And I give none to Heidi/Red Joe (Donnelly)/Manchin either cause voting not to drop the bomb rendered their filibuster opposition meaningless.
Props to our RINOS for towing the line.
Johnny Isakson was absent for the confirmation vote. Dude has had serious health problems for a long time, at one point IRRC it was feared he was gonna die. He probably should have retired.
Thomas, you mean. Scalia could be a bit authoritarian and government-sucking at times.
“McConnell is a klutz.”
He put Gorsuch on the bench for this case. Under your klutz plan we would still be hearing speeches from the democrats on why to not vote for Gorsuch.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542856/posts
“McConnell is a klutz.”
If Democrats had afforded Gorsuch a relatively non-controversial confirmation process (after all, it was simply swapping one conservative for another), it is a very open question whether McConnell would have been able to corral all 52 votes to pass a rules change on behalf of Trump’s second pick — whose credentials may not be quite as sterling as Gorsuch’s, and whose presence on the Court would tilt the ideological balance rightward. By picking the fight that they did in order to appease the barking jackals in their base, Democrats ensured that the next pick can get installed on the bench with 50-plus-one votes.
Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court on April 7 and this week will take part in deciding whether he and his fellow justices will hear the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s ruling which upheld California’s “good cause” requirement for concealed carry.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3543155/posts
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