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Senate Democrats Should Block All Trump Supreme Court Nominees, ForeverJuan Cole
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We dont need a Trump-nominated supreme Court justice. We desperately dont need such a person. And there is no reason to have one. The Democrats in the Senate should just filibuster any nomination for the next four years. Now, you may say that a president deserves to have the nominee of his choice voted on. But those were the old rules before we saw how the Republican Party treated Barack Obama. They just told him no, no, no on everything. Everything. They even threatened the home mortgages of government employees by closing down the government. Twice. They vilified Obama, shouted disrespectfully at him from the floor of Congress, and then they refused even to let his Supreme Court nominee, a centrist, come up for a vote. They declared President Obama a lame duck when he had 11 months left in his presidency.
You might say that if the Dems act in this way, the Republicans will just change the Senate rules so that things are done by a simple majority. Let them. Sooner or later the Democrats will get a simple majority in the senate along with a Democratic president, and no one ever again will be able to constrain them the way the GOP put President Obama into a straight jacket.
Were watching you, Senate Democrats. Remember: No Trump appointee should be seated. Ever.
You might say that if the Dems act in this way, the Republicans will just change the Senate rules so that things are done by a simple majority. Let them. Sooner or later the Democrats will get a simple majority in the senate along with a Democratic president, and no one ever again will be able to constrain them the way the GOP put President Obama into a straight jacket.
Were watching you, Senate Democrats. Remember: No Trump appointee should be seated. Ever.
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Senate Democrats Should Block All Trump Supreme Court Nominees, Forever (Original Post)
portlander23
Dec 2016
OP
Nope, Republicans do not have 60 votes in the Senate. Force them to use the nuclear option out
Trust Buster
Dec 2016
#3
I'm fine with a 4/4 split on the Supreme Court. We all need to write to Schumer and
OregonBlue
Dec 2016
#8
gordianot
(15,249 posts)1. Include all cabinet positions with extreme right wing and Russian ties.
If not blocked publicly insulted, just another billionaire.
Kilgore
(1,733 posts)2. Ok then, whats the plan since we dont a functional majority in either house?
At best its compromise for now.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)3. Nope, Republicans do not have 60 votes in the Senate. Force them to use the nuclear option out
of principle.
Kilgore
(1,733 posts)4. Unfortunately they have that option because Harry Reid gave it to them
I have no doubt they will use it proudly.
Thanks alot Harry.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)6. I doubt they will need it - dems will probably cave.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)5. They won't
Senate Dems will kiss Trump's ass.
dreamland
(964 posts)7. Block Everything!
After 8 years of NObama, it's time for all Dems to go NOTrump. We need senators and congressmen with backbone and tactics to block tyrant tRump every chance we get. Aren't we the party of ideas and thinkers?
OregonBlue
(7,755 posts)8. I'm fine with a 4/4 split on the Supreme Court. We all need to write to Schumer and
insist he be a real leader. He's so DNC he will gladly help a pro-corporate judge. We must stop him.