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Democrat senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid first introduced a filibuster for judicial nominees, and then ending the filibuster for judicial nominees when it
by ghufran_syed 6y ago
Democrat senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid first introduced a filibuster for judicial nominees, and then ending the filibuster for judicial nominees when it was politically convenient for them.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/mitch-mcconnell-charles-schumer-nuclear-option-judicial-filibuster-214991 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/mitch-mcconn...
Do you think that might have affected the ability of the current president to successfully appoint a supreme court justice now?
- res0nat0r 6y agoNo
- gilrain 6y ago> Democrat Childish. Come on.
- evan_ 6y agoDo you think the republicans would not have ended it for Kavanaugh?
- cmurf 6y agoThey did. Reid's cloture vote to end the filibuster applied to federal judges, not Supreme Court justices. Before the vote on Kavanaugh there was a cloture vote to end the filibuster.
- evan_ 6y agoOh well if he hasn’t done that surely the republicans would’ve sat on their hands this whole time
- glenstein 6y agoThere are so many unpacked assumptions and unevaluated arguments here it would take a book to work through them all. To give a short version - if you oppose a filibuster, then don't use it to prevent Merrick Garland from being on the court. Nothing about Schumer's position on the filibuster in 2002 can be used to argue that the trajectory of court appointments since then is a culmination of any logically consistent argument in response to it.
- pbourke 6y ago> Democrat senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid ... *Democratic Chuck Shumer, a Democrat, is a member of the Democratic Party. When used as an adjective the correct usage is “Democratic”
- chkaloon 6y agoThe useful thing about seeing 'Democrat' in a comment is that it is immediately obvious which way their bias leans.
- arp242 6y agoWhat's wrong with "democratic" and why would it tell someone's political leanings? Isn't it just a different way to say "democratic"?
- chkaloon 6y agoYou must not be from around here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
- nostromo 6y agoIn this case I don't see why it needs to be an adjective. By analogy, you'll more often hear "Texas senator Mr Bean" (using the singular noun) vs "Texan senator Mr Bean" (using the adjective). In any case, it's not something anyone should get worked up over.