Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory..thanks for killing filibuster Harry Reid!

[ColonelAngus]

And that brings us to the Democrat who provided the initial generous source of President Trump's solid triumph: Former Senate Majority Leader, and Democrat, Harry Reid. Reid is a major reason this good fortune has befallen President Trump because Reid was the one who killed the filibuster rule for judicial nominees in 2013. And when he killed it, it was gone for good.

Republicans were powerless to stop a series of President Obama's judicial nominees after that. That is, until they won control of the Senate in the 2014 elections. The GOP may have failed at using that majority to achieve much, especially making even a dent in Obamacare. But they were able to freeze the Obama nomination process in its tracks, most notably by delaying and eventually killing Merrick Garland's nomination for the Supreme Court.

• Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is giving President Trump yet another major victory on judicial nominations.

• None of this would have been possible without Harry Reid's decision to kill the filibuster.

• The result is Trump will get to fill the most federal judiciary vacancies in 40 years.

Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory

 

[ColonelAngus]

Harry Reid is such a piece of shit.

Hopefully, this will be his legacy....to hand the federal judiciary to the right for decades to come.

Thanks Harry!!! I hope your eye is healing well. (not really)

 

[ColonelAngus]

Wow, Dems really fucked up....bad.

Consider that as of November 3rd, 13 Trump nominees to the courts have been confirmed this year. The big name is Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, but we also have eight new federal appeals court judges, and four new U.S. district court judges. President Trump has now already surpassed the last four presidents' records for first-year judifical confirmations. And he's even tied President Ronald Reagan number of appeals court confirmations in year one.

But this isn't just about sheer numbers, it's about ideology too. While President Trump and conservatives have diverged in matters of policy several times over the past year, the judicial nomination process is decidedly not one of them. The nominees sent to the Senate from the White House are more conservative and even younger than what we saw during President George W. Bush's two terms in office.

 

[BluesLegend]

We leveled the nuclear option on Dem's after they bragged about intending to block president Trump's SCOTUS nominee, another Trump victory. Have Dem's ever been as butthurt as they have this first year of Trump's presidency?