'Nuclear option' expected after Democrats filibuster Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination

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The nuclear or constitutional option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the U.S. Senate to override a rule or precedent by a simple majority of 51 votes, instead of by a supermajority of 60 votes.

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And so it begins. . . . .


My opinion? It was going to happen sooner or later. Reid "broke" the dam on this option, so use it or lose it.

Let's move on to the next crisis!

a reply to: DBCowboy

You might as well change your thread title to: Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch to US Supreme Court after Nuclear Option Invoked by Republican Majority.

About time Republicans show some REAL backbone!

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a reply to: DBCowboy


So I guess, "Thank you Harry Reid" is in order?



To be honest, I shocked "Birdman" Mitch McConnell is actually going thru with it!

a reply to: DBCowboy

if you do not know the reason behind "Reid breaking the dam", then your simplistic answer makes sense...tell you what, I think the democrats should follow in the footsteps of their fellow republican senators, and frankly state to the public that it is their intention to make trump a one-term president, and to block EVERYTHING the republicans senators, as well as the president, proposes for the next 4 years.....

originally posted by: carewemust
About time Republicans show some REAL backbone!

When it gets down to the jiggy ... this is a vote for the RINOs.

I'll chalk it up as a win for the Government and the New World Order.

originally posted by: Snarl

originally posted by: carewemust
About time Republicans show some REAL backbone!

When it gets down to the jiggy ... this is a vote for the RINOs.

I'll chalk it up as a win for the Government and the New World Order.

Does this mean we have another "chief" of justice to ignore all the injustice in the world?

a reply to: jimmyx

That's fine. I really don't expect any compromise from political leadership from now on anyway.


The "ideological gloves" have come off.

a reply to: DBCowboy

Done, senate affirm the nuclear option

But that is what democrats want it, right?

Well, whatever happens in terms of politics, the average Joe making the median workers wage will take it up the butt.

a reply to: DBCowboy
THIS is one of the reason why I voted for Donald Trump!!!! Woohoo!!!!! Finally someone is getting something done! Bout time.

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: Snarl

originally posted by: carewemust
About time Republicans show some REAL backbone!

When it gets down to the jiggy ... this is a vote for the RINOs.

I'll chalk it up as a win for the Government and the New World Order.

Does this mean we another "chief" of justice to ignore all the injustice in the world?

I am afraid so. These people who comprise the government need to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

I don't know when the SCOTUS went all-in-political, but it's time for a re-set.

originally posted by: Martin75
a reply to: DBCowboy
THIS is one of the reason why I voted for Donald Trump!!!! Woohoo!!!!! Finally someone is getting something done! Bout time.

geez, really?...having your garbage picked up once a week is "getting something done".....one thing about republicans, they can never set the bar too low.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
abcnews.go.com...

The nuclear or constitutional option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the U.S. Senate to override a rule or precedent by a simple majority of 51 votes, instead of by a supermajority of 60 votes.

en.wikipedia.org...


And so it begins. . . . .


My opinion? It was going to happen sooner or later. Reid "broke" the dam on this option, so use it or lose it.

Let's move on to the next crisis!

I realy hope usa ready for the nuclear retaliasion

They're talking about it.
Not a move they want to make lightly.
It could play against them in the future.

a reply to: therealfreeworld

Oh my...

The question I have, is this;

Has it always been a super majority of 60 to pass or confirm something?

a reply to: Sillyolme

I am afraid that you are right, but it could be some congress changes to avoid the nuclear option ever again to be used.

a reply to: DBCowboy

Yes, but the nuclear option I think is only for justices? I need to find more about that one.

In 1892, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Ballin that both houses of Congress are parliamentary bodies, implying that they may make procedural rules by majority vote.

en.wikipedia.org...

originally posted by: Sillyolme
It could play against them in the future.

I agree and it probably will.

Sad that even a SCOTUS nomination has become so partisan that this has to be considered. The nuclear option has been used before but not for a SCOTUS.

Gorsuch really inst bad at all. I think the dems are wasting their time fighting this. Obama got 2 justices that IMO are far more partisan than Gorsuch without all this hoopla