re: Senate Democrats to filibuster Trump SCOTUS nominee regardless of who it is

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The US Senate voted on Thursday to change the rules that have enabled Republicans to block Barack Obama's nominees for top administration posts.

By 52 votes to 48, senators approved along partisan lines a measure that would ban the use of the filibuster to prevent nominees from being confirmed.

In a speech in support of the measure, majority leader Harry Reid accused Republicans of blocking nominees in the pursuit of unrelated legislative goals.

"For the first time in the history of our republic, Republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent President Obama from appointing an executive team and from appointing judges," Reid said. "The need for change is so, so very obvious. It's clearly visible. It's manifest we have to do something to change things."

Until now, 60 votes have been required to lift or avoid a filibuster. Under the new rules, a simple majority of 51 would suffice. The new measure would not apply to supreme court nominees. "It's an undeniable fact that the obstruction we've seen in recent years is altogether new," Reid said after the vote.

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Republicans have warned, however, that Democrats may regret the move when they next find themselves in the minority. "Some of us have been here long enough to know the shoe is sometimes on the other foot," minority leader Mitch McConnell said, on the Senate floor. "You'll regret this, and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think."

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The article does say it does not cover Supreme Court nominations, but I find it funny nonetheless.

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A couple of those senators on the list are in their first term. They haven't been around long enough to earn as much cred back home with voters as a Joe Manchin.

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Senate Democrats to filibuster Trump SCOTUS nominee regardless of who it is

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well isn't that what the republicans did last year?

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President Obama “regrets” filibustering the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2006, his top spokesman said Wednesday, though he maintains that the Republican opposition to his effort to replace Justice Antonin Scalia is unprecedented. 

“That is an approach the president regrets,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

Obama and the Democratic senators who joined him in filibustering Alito “should have been in the position where they were making a public case” against the merits of his nomination to the high court instead, Earnest said.
“They shouldn’t have looked for a way to just throw sand in the gears of the process," he added. 

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Let the cocksuckers do this and tell them they better get 60 dim senators to ever get a dim nominee seated

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Latest Gallup poll has 43% approve 50% disapprove. Even Rasmussen's tracking poll has Trump's approval dropping.

Hahahahahahaha

More polls horse shite

The next one that matters is in 18

I didn't vote for him, but I approve so far.

Mostly because of the complete meltdown of the press and Hollywood.

And people like you.

It's been very fun to watch people prance around in pussy suits disillusioning themselves into thinking their making a stand. When all you're doing is emboldening Trump supporters ( and even those who didn't vote for him )

None of you learned from the election.

Which, I suppose (for Trump, anyways) is a good thing.

2 words: nuclear option

Thank you HarrymotherfrickingReid