Reid ending the filibuster in 2013 when the Dems were going to lose the Senate in 2014 makes Amy Barrett the "Harry Reid Nomination". McConnell warned Dems prior to the vote that they would live to regret it, and maybe sooner than they think. They ran unheeded to their current position, and Cocaine Mitch plays for keeps.All Obama had to do to fill the open positions was to nominate people who were acceptable to both parties. That's the way it was always done when the presidency and senate were split.we thank Mitch Mconnell who blocked zObama from filling judgeships at an unprecedented level and started this whole thing.You can thank Harry Reid for the new supreme Court Justice confirmationThe vote on ACB will be before Kelly is seated, November 30th at the earliest, probably in January.I see you're not a math majorrightwinger is already wrong Kelly can't stop itRomney will approve of his pick because Utah Mormons will demand it. They are a bunch of pro-lifer nazis. All Trump has to do is nominate one, and Romney will be bound.Too little too late. EnjoyTrumps 3rd S C pick.
If he gets approval, it will be by a razor thin margin.
Murkowski, Collins, Romney and eventually Kelly will defeat it
Lol..... For him it will be like eating a plate of rotten dog meat.
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Republicans know it will come down to a race to get the vote in before the election.
They have the votes now with Pence deciding. Once Kelly wins, they don’t
Now the GOP has a 53-47 advantage in the Senate
When Kelly gets seated, even as early as November 30th, even assuming Murkowski still votes with the democrats, Romney, Collins, and Grassley would not. so even after Kelly is seated the senate is still 51-49 GOP until January.
Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Kelly = 4
Romney is an "aye"
So its 51-49
And the Senate will need a vote of 60 to break the "Green Eggs".
15 TIMES: In U.S. history, a Supreme Court vacancy arose in a presidential election year and the President nominated someone that year.
- 8 TIMES: Voters had chosen a Senate majority of the same party as the President. 7 of those 8 nominations were confirmed.
- The only such nominee who was not confirmed faced bipartisan opposition over serious questions of judicial ethics and personal finances.
- Apart from that strange exception, no Senate has failed to confirm a nominee in the circumstances that face the body now.
- 7 TIMES: Voters had chosen an opposite-party Senate to check and balance the President. Only 2 of these 7 nominations were confirmed, the last in 1888.