Law The Search For The 113th Supreme Court Justice, v2: President Trump Nominates Judge Neil Gorsuch

What are the consequences of the nuclear option though? Is this guy worth requiring a simple majority in future votes?

Congressional Apocalypse.

Despite all the hooplas, nobody in their right mind actually wants to eliminate the only tool in the Minority's arsenal for a Supreme Court nomination, except for a handful of extremists on both sides who will bring up the precedent at the Federal courts during the hearings. They will quickly be squashed, because the rest are career politicians who understands full well what it feels like when their side wasn't in the majority.

I predict that after all this big talk from Schumer, and perhaps a symbolic half-hearted filibuster attempt even, Judge Gorsuch will get all the votes he needs from the 10 Democratic Senators who lost their States in the General Election, plus all the mainstream ones with functional brains who don't want to see Capitol Hill in chaos.
 
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What is the nuclear option?

They can change Senate rules with a simple majority. So they could change the rules that only a simple majority is needed to confirm somebody.

They might do this if the Dems refuse to confirm him.
 
Let the Democrats block this if they want.

The Republicans should make sure nothing else gets done while this is blocked.

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So you are advocating that while the Dems block Trumps Supreme Court nomination the GOP should make sure none of Trumps other agenda items, like the repeal of Obama Care should move foreword?

Okay!
 
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So you are advocating that while the Dems block Trumps Supreme Court nomination the GOP should make sure none of Trumps other agenda items, like the repeal of Obama Care should move foreword?

Okay!

You'll have to excuse him. Trumpeteers are an emotional lot. Logic and critical thinking doesn't get you very far with them.
 
possible that rogue account is purposely coming from the admin ? .. not sure why but I don't put it past trump since he likes trying out different things
 
I can see it coming.

Islamophobe
Homophobe
Racist
Sexist
He'll put assault rifles in the hands of children

The lgbtqnation is alreadying yapping about him:
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/trumps-possible-supreme-court-picks-lgbt-issues/

"Gorsuch has not decided any cases that directly spoke to LGBT rights. As a lawyer though, Gorsuch wrote an article in 2005 for the National Review arguing that liberals are using the courts too much and specifically mentioning same-sex marriage:

But rather than use the judiciary for extraordinary cases, von Drehle recognizes that American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education….

As von Drehle recognizes, too much reliance on constitutional litigation is also bad for the Left itself. The Left’s alliance with trial lawyers and its dependence on constitutional litigation to achieve its social goals risks
political atrophy. Liberals may win a victory on gay marriage when preaching to the choir before like-minded judges in Massachusetts. But in failing to reach out and persuade the public generally, they invite exactly the sort of backlash we saw in November when gay marriage was rejected in all eleven states where it was on the ballot.


While he didn’t exactly say he opposed same-sex marriage, someone who believed that an entire class of people was being denied access to a legal institution solely because of bias would not have lumped same-sex marriage in with school vouchers.

But maybe his ideas have changed over the last decade, especially since his prediction that the public wouldn’t come around on same-sex marriage was proven wrong."

Basically it says Gorsuch wasn't an opponent to their cause but he wasn't an outright supporter either.

But you can see in what Gorsuch wrote above, he didn't particularly care for activism using the courts
 
The lgbtqnation is alreadying yapping about him:
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/trumps-possible-supreme-court-picks-lgbt-issues/

"Gorsuch has not decided any cases that directly spoke to LGBT rights. As a lawyer though, Gorsuch wrote an article in 2005 for the National Review arguing that liberals are using the courts too much and specifically mentioning same-sex marriage:

But rather than use the judiciary for extraordinary cases, von Drehle recognizes that American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education….

As von Drehle recognizes, too much reliance on constitutional litigation is also bad for the Left itself. The Left’s alliance with trial lawyers and its dependence on constitutional litigation to achieve its social goals risks
political atrophy. Liberals may win a victory on gay marriage when preaching to the choir before like-minded judges in Massachusetts. But in failing to reach out and persuade the public generally, they invite exactly the sort of backlash we saw in November when gay marriage was rejected in all eleven states where it was on the ballot.


While he didn’t exactly say he opposed same-sex marriage, someone who believed that an entire class of people was being denied access to a legal institution solely because of bias would not have lumped same-sex marriage in with school vouchers.

But maybe his ideas have changed over the last decade, especially since his prediction that the public wouldn’t come around on same-sex marriage was proven wrong."

Basically it says Gorsuch wasn't an opponent to the cause but he wasn't an outright supporter either.

But you can see in what Gorsuch wrote above, he didn't particularly care for activism using the courts
LGBTQ pretty much runs the left.
 
Let the Democrats block this if they want.

The Republicans should make sure nothing else gets done while this is blocked.
The republicans have done a good job at that for the last eight years...shouldn't be hard for them to keep the ball rolling.
 
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