Go for it, make the Goop’ers own this train wreck lock, stock, and barrel.
The GOP wants this to happen. I suspect that is why Gorsuch refused to meet with either Sen. Duckworth or Cortez Masto.
I’m going to be very interested to see how the Senators of CO, IN, WV and ND fare in 2018 to see if their votes to accept Gorsuch backfired against them. They laid a LOT on the line for their votes. We’ll see if the whole “bipartisanship” ship sailed on without them.
Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (D-IA)
Fix, please…
Excellent.
Scalia died in February 2016, not 2015. Not that it would have stopped the republicans from pulling the same shit . . .
Do it! You built that, GOP. Time to own it.
Schumer is an impressive quick learner, I have to say…
Good job, Chuck.
I don’t see this backfiring on the Repubs soon. They stole a Supreme Court seat and obliterated yet another norm. They win, for now, and that’s it.
But if the Dems had reverted to their old pre-Obama crouch position and “kept their powder dry” so that the Repubs could eliminate the filibuster when deployed against a more objectionable nominee (with the same politics but less compelling hair? How does this rationale even make sense?) it would have hugely dispirited our side’s base. We still lose this way, but at least we lose standing and not scraping and bowing before the might of the GOP juggernaut (LOL).
The filibuster is not Constitutional. I suspect it will be gone entirely not long after McConnell uses the “Nuclear Option.” I would imagine that anyone with the IQ of a leafy green vegetable understands that. Will getting rid of the filibuster make the Senate a better place is anybody’s guess. It probably means the Senate will devolve into a junior House. This is going to be historic.
Alt Merrick Garland: I am so SAD!
Constitution allows Senate to make rules as it sees fit, including make a new one to disregard it.
Also I want to see those NOs from red states rewarded, namely McCaskill and Tester. We of course have our own wishes about the way they vote, but in reality this was not an easy decision for them.
Another Traitor:
Traitor, or posturer? Maybe the latter…
For you
My point is you won’t find the filibuster mentioned in the Constitution. It is an arbitrary rule put in place to require consensus and promote congeniality. Nothing congenial about the current Republican lead Senate.
This is the right move. It doesn’t matter WHO the nominee was, Republicans were nuke the filibuster no matter what. Better to go down swinging when you have the Merrick Garland situation you can use to define this as a principled stand.