Schumer: Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch nomination
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As the Senate Judiciary Committee was hearing from witnesses for and against Judge Neil Gorsuch, his Supreme Court nomination was delivered a critical blow: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he would join with other Democrats in filibustering Gorsuch — a move that would require at least 60 senators to vote to end debate on the nomination.
Republicans have vowed to change Senate procedures if Democrats do so to quickly confirm Gorsuch — but Schumer suggested they should focus instead on Trump’s nominee.
“If this nominee cannot earn 60 votes — a bar met by each of President Obama’s nominees, and George Bush’s last two nominees — the answer isn’t to change the rules. It’s to change the nominee,” he said.
Gorsuch “was unable to sufficiently convince me that he’d be an independent check” on Trump, Schumer said in a Senate floor speech.
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Good.
Agreed, while I'm sure Gorsuch is just a man caught up in a storm, we shouldn't be appointing anyone to a life-long position in the midst of an investigation of foreign influence in our country's top leadership.
[QUOTE]Republicans have vowed to change Senate procedures if Democrats do so to quickly confirm Gorsuch[/QUOTE]
Nobody [I]ever[/I] learns. Not a month ago the GOP was mocking Democrats because the Dems had changed the rules from a supermajority to a simple majority vote for confirmations or something and now the GOP was using the relaxed standards against the Dems.
Now the GOP want to change the rules so it benefits them with all the shortsightedness of not looking at how this will affect them once the pendulumn swings the other way.
How much of the congressional budget is allocated to apple juice boxes and naptime? jfc
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