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The Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has a huge, life changing, decision to make in light of the developments on his confirmation proceedings. The Democrats have over forty votes to block a motion to end debate on his confirmation and with certainty plan on voting that way on the motion. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell likewise has indicated with certainty that if the Democrats do this filibuster he will change the rules on what is needed to end debate on the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee specifically change the rules from sixty votes needed for the motion to pass to fifty-one votes. In the current climate of hyper-partisanship in Washington and considering that the Republicans hold fifty-two Senate seats it should be taken as a given that Senator McConnell will be able to change the rule in this way.
Senator McConnell is completely tunnel visioned about this Gorsuch confirmation repeatedly saying that one way or the other the confirmation is passing by this friday. Senator McConnell is unwilling to see that both parties position have a legitimate claim to being right the Republicans should have held hearings and a vote on the Merrick Garland nomination the US constitution does not make an exception that the confirmation process for a nominee can be put off to after the next presidential election if the ideological balance of the court is at stake. On the Republican side the constitution doesn't have a time mandate on holding the confirmation process the Republicans did nothing illegal with the Garland nomination. Senator McConnell doesn't see his duty as putting America's long-term interests above having the right outcome occur on a single issue. In this same vein Senator McConnell says on this overall issue that the American people have spoken on the Supreme Court issue with the past November elections giving all three centers of power in Washington to the Republicans and the Democrats should listen; Senator McConnell is giving a self-serving spin here what the last elections have told us is that the American people desperately want significant economic improvement in America that is why they voted in Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress road in on his coattails, this election provided no national consensus on the direction of the Supreme Court. Moreover, if Senator McConnell wants to reference this past election as dictating the country's direction here in this past November election the American people did not give the Republican Party fifty six Senate seats therefore the Republican party doesn't have a popular mandate to unilaterally impose its will on this issue.
Based on what is definitely going to play out here Mr. Gorsuch clearly has a decision to make. He must decide if he wants to acquire his Supreme Court seat by dramatically hurting the institution of the Supreme Court. Many Senators have quite artfully described the harm that will be done by this rule change when they say it will forever change the Supreme Court causing more Judges to be seated on the court that hold extreme ideology in part reducing the stability and reliability in America's legal system. This writers a little spiritual and along those lines believes in really significant matters what goes around comes around and if one is involved in really hurting America one should not be surprised if significant bad luck befalls one; in 2015 former Senator Majority leader had an accident that left him blind in one eye whose to say that maybe this wouldn't have happened if Senator Reid earlier in 2015 did not do that terrible thing to America changing the threshold of votes needed to end confirmation debate from 60 to 51 for Federal Court nominees to U.S. District and Appellate courts making America's Judiciary more partisan!
Senator McConnell is completely tunnel visioned about this Gorsuch confirmation repeatedly saying that one way or the other the confirmation is passing by this friday. Senator McConnell is unwilling to see that both parties position have a legitimate claim to being right the Republicans should have held hearings and a vote on the Merrick Garland nomination the US constitution does not make an exception that the confirmation process for a nominee can be put off to after the next presidential election if the ideological balance of the court is at stake. On the Republican side the constitution doesn't have a time mandate on holding the confirmation process the Republicans did nothing illegal with the Garland nomination. Senator McConnell doesn't see his duty as putting America's long-term interests above having the right outcome occur on a single issue. In this same vein Senator McConnell says on this overall issue that the American people have spoken on the Supreme Court issue with the past November elections giving all three centers of power in Washington to the Republicans and the Democrats should listen; Senator McConnell is giving a self-serving spin here what the last elections have told us is that the American people desperately want significant economic improvement in America that is why they voted in Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress road in on his coattails, this election provided no national consensus on the direction of the Supreme Court. Moreover, if Senator McConnell wants to reference this past election as dictating the country's direction here in this past November election the American people did not give the Republican Party fifty six Senate seats therefore the Republican party doesn't have a popular mandate to unilaterally impose its will on this issue.
Based on what is definitely going to play out here Mr. Gorsuch clearly has a decision to make. He must decide if he wants to acquire his Supreme Court seat by dramatically hurting the institution of the Supreme Court. Many Senators have quite artfully described the harm that will be done by this rule change when they say it will forever change the Supreme Court causing more Judges to be seated on the court that hold extreme ideology in part reducing the stability and reliability in America's legal system. This writers a little spiritual and along those lines believes in really significant matters what goes around comes around and if one is involved in really hurting America one should not be surprised if significant bad luck befalls one; in 2015 former Senator Majority leader had an accident that left him blind in one eye whose to say that maybe this wouldn't have happened if Senator Reid earlier in 2015 did not do that terrible thing to America changing the threshold of votes needed to end confirmation debate from 60 to 51 for Federal Court nominees to U.S. District and Appellate courts making America's Judiciary more partisan!