Kurt Schlicter...on the Nuclear Option...that is, ending the Senate's filibuster rule for Gorsuch...

[TheOldSchool]

From what it looks like so far, not really.

How did you 2016 election predictions work out?

Hillary ended up getting more votes as I thought. I never predicted the Russian sabotage and last minute FBI treason that helped Trump win on a technicality though.

 

[2aguy]

Speaking of one of the 39 lone butt-hurt snowflake Democrats planning on bucking the majority of his party to support a filibuster....

Democratic Party Sen. Jeff Merkley has declared that he is SO butt-hurt and against the Democratic Party's declaration that EVERY Judge deserves an up-or-down vote, supported by the Reid Rule, that if there is a vote held and even if his fellow Democrats vote to appoint Gorsuch as a USSC Justice he will refuse to acknowledge the vote as legitimate and refuse to accept Gorsuch as a legitimate USSC Judge.

...sounds like a PERSONAL PROBLEM, because the moment Gorsuch is confirmed through a vote, if it happens, no one will give a damn what Merkley refuses to accept or not.

Dem senator says if Gorsuch is confirmed to the Supreme Court, his votes won’t be ‘legitimate’

"Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) claimed Thursday that if Judge Neil Gorsuch is confirmed to the Supreme Court, his votes would not be “legitimate.”"


Merkley went on to embarrass himself further by declaring, "confirming Gorsuch to the nation’s highest court would “destroy the integrity of the Senate.”

Ummm....that would be the Democratic Party Senate in which Harry Reid and the Democrats passed the 'Reid Rule' ensuring EVERY judge would get an up-or-down' vote in the future...and that means he is saying that by adhering to the Democrats' Rule that argued / ensured Gorsuch should have such a vote would somehow destroy the Senate.

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Dem senator says if Gorsuch is confirmed to the Supreme Court, his votes won’t be ‘legitimate’

And of course no mention of Senator ted kennedy destroying the Senate when he actively worked with the Soviet Union to undermine the President of the United States....

 

[2aguy]

From what it looks like so far, not really.

How did you 2016 election predictions work out?

Hillary ended up getting more votes as I thought. I never predicted the Russian sabotage and last minute FBI treason that helped Trump win on a technicality though.

Again....illegal alien votes do not count....and the massive voter fraud conducted by democrats.....bob craemer and scot foval do not count either....

Watch the video again...where bob craemer admits that the DNC paid him and scot foval to conduct massive voter fraud operations...which states they did it in, how they selected the illegal voters and how they actually carried out the voter fraud.....

 

[2aguy]

The best case scenario for Democrats is for republicans to use the nuclear option. There's absolutely nothing to gain from compromising with the GOP. Tell them to get to 60 or fuck off otherwise.

You mean like the way harry reid already did?

 

[2aguy]

So, for a lifetime position as a justice on the Supreme Court of the Land, you don't want the ability to get 60 votes, to bring the nomination to the floor of the Senate?

You want the country to believe that our Justices are not just at all and simply partisan pricks on either side?

Roberts got the 60 votes for cloture, to bring his vote to the floor, Alito got the 60 votes to bring cloture and to bring the vot to the floor, sotomyer got the 60 votes to bring the nomination vote to the floor....etc etc etc

And NOW you all want to change that for SC Justices? That's so short sighted!

You'll regret it....when the Democrats are in power, mark my words!

Please....you are a fool.......the democrats get their justices...even sotomayor and kagan....left wing hacks......and the Republicans voted to let them through...now that the court can actually be changed, after Gorsuch, the democrats are going to make a stand and not allow any of Trumps picks through....

Nuke that sucker......

 

[2aguy]

So, for a lifetime position as a justice on the Supreme Court of the Land, you don't want the ability to get 60 votes, to bring the nomination to the floor of the Senate?

You want the country to believe that our Justices are not just at all and simply partisan pricks on either side?

Roberts got the 60 votes for cloture, to bring his vote to the floor, Alito got the 60 votes to bring cloture and to bring the vot to the floor, sotomyer got the 60 votes to bring the nomination vote to the floor....etc etc etc

And NOW you all want to change that for SC Justices? That's so short sighted!

You'll regret it....when the Democrats are in power, mark my words!

If the democrats were in power and had the majority they would get rid of the filibuster faster than they did for all the other justices....

 

[Doc1]

So, for a lifetime position as a justice on the Supreme Court of the Land, you don't want the ability to get 60 votes, to bring the nomination to the floor of the Senate?

You want the country to believe that our Justices are not just at all and simply partisan pricks on either side?

Roberts got the 60 votes for cloture, to bring his vote to the floor, Alito got the 60 votes to bring cloture and to bring the vot to the floor, sotomyer got the 60 votes to bring the nomination vote to the floor....etc etc etc

And NOW you all want to change that for SC Justices? That's so short sighted!

You'll regret it....when the Democrats are in power, mark my words!

Nope. If Gorsuch is the man is record says he is we won't regret it at all. Couple that with Kennedy talking about retiring and Ginsberg ready to die it's looking pretty good.