DNC Candidate Keith Ellison Wants Full Democrat Filibuster on Gorsuch Nomination

[livingston]

DNC Candidate Keith Ellison Wants Full Democrat Filibuster on Gorsuch Nomination
During the last of the DNC regional forum’s today in Baltimore Maryland, leading candidate Keith Ellison outlines why every non-Democrat should hope he wins the chairmanship.

Ellison’s expressed approach is that Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch should be filibustered by all Senate Democrats. This is Keith Ellison’s strategy:

BALTIMORE – […] Ellison said Democrats should filibuster Gorsuch’s confirmation after Republicans refused to consider Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama‘s nominee for the seat.

“We have to oppose Gorsuch at every millimeter, and the reason why is Republicans stole a Democratic seat,” he said. “We cannot capitulate to that kind of bullying. They’re the ones who broke the rules.” (more)

This short-sighted, inside the bubble and disconnected approach plays brilliantly into the hands of team Trump. This approach is exactly what will trigger the nuclear option as we have described previously.
DNC Candidate Keith Ellison Wants Full Democrat Filibuster on Gorsuch Nomination…

 

[livingston]

Justice Kennedy is 80 years old and has openly stated he wants to retire. Kennedy views Gorsuch, his former clerk and protege’ as his replacement. Justice Kennedy sees Judge Gorsuch through a mirrored perspective.

With Gorsuch ideologically filling his legacy gap, it is reasonable to see Kennedy stepping down after the SCOTUS season this year. Most likely using the period of July/August 2017 recess for the term of replacement.

Justice Kennedy’s exit then provides President Trump with nominee #2.

Senator Schumer is not stupid. He knows this.

SCHUMER’S CARDS – If Schumer filibusters Judge Gorsuch now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will, most likely, use the nuclear option and point to Senator Schumer as the reason therein.

That means Judge Gorsuch on the bench having needed only 51 votes. McConnell points to Schumers intransigence and also points to the former overwhelming bipartisan confirmation of Gorsuch, against the backdrop of the Judges impeccable character and credentials etc.

Deployment of the nuclear option means, more consequentially, when Justice Kennedy announces his retirement, ANY replacement – including a much, much more conservative replacement like Pryor – is a guaranteed seat only needing 51 votes.

Think about it. The court would then lean even further to the right, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2017, (now 84-years-old), clinging to a respirator in year one of President Trump’s tenure.

SEAT #3 – Can Ginsburg make it to 2020? Doubtful. To 2024? Almost impossible
DNC Candidate Keith Ellison Wants Full Democrat Filibuster on Gorsuch Nomination…

 

[livingston]

 

[Phazer]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

I'm getting very excited!

All I wanted from this president was appointment of constitutional conservatives to the supreme court. This may indeed happen.

This could break the back of the Liberal Progressive agenda in the judiciary for a generation. YES!

 

[Greywolf224]

Question for you politiacl guru's.
Can the Nuclear Option if needed be invoke for all future SCOTUS elective's during the Most Honorable President Trumps term?
If No, why?
If yes, any future fallout other than it could and will be used against the republicans at every possible future turn?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Wait a minute. You mean the Keith Ellison who was the first Muslim elected to Congress and a leading progressive among House Democrats, who already has picked up the backing of both the Democratic Party’s left – with support from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren – and its establishment, receiving endorsements from Senate leaders Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and retiring Harry Reid, D-Nev? The Keith Sanders who defended Farrakhan against accusations of anti-Semitism in 1989 and in 1990 had called affirmative action a "sneaky" form of compensation for slavery, calling instead for reparations? The Keith Ellison who once identified with Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and in 1998 was referring to himself as Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison-Muhammed? The Keith Ellison who acknowledged he had worked with the group, but only for 18 months to help organize Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March? The Keith Ellison who made a comparison between Bush and 9/11 to Hitler and the 1933 Reichstag fire? That Keith Ellison?

 

[livingston]

Question for you politiacl guru's.
Can the Nuclear Option if needed be invoke for all future SCOTUS elective's during the Most Honorable President Trumps term?
If No, why?
If yes, any future fallout other than it could and will be used against the republicans at every possible future turn?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will, most likely, use the nuclear option and point to Senator Schumer as the reason therein.

That means Judge Gorsuch on the bench having needed only 51 votes. McConnell points to Schumers intransigence and also points to the former overwhelming bipartisan confirmation of Gorsuch, against the backdrop of the Judges impeccable character and credentials etc.

Deployment of the nuclear option means, more consequentially, when Justice Kennedy announces his retirement, ANY replacement – including a much, much more conservative replacement like Pryor – is a guaranteed seat only needing 51 votes.

Once this starts it will be easier to use it in the future.
This came about by I believe a rule change that the Democrats put in thinking they would always hold the majority.....
I believe another rule change can take this off the table .

 

[Phauxtoe]

 

[livingston]

On occasion I run across this statement
The nuclear option is for everything except for Supreme Court . The article I posted above claims differently . Will have to research more ... Unless someone can chime in .

 

[GOPerfect]

Question for you politiacl guru's.
Can the Nuclear Option if needed be invoke for all future SCOTUS elective's during the Most Honorable President Trumps term?
If No, why?
If yes, any future fallout other than it could and will be used against the republicans at every possible future turn?

Yes, it can happen over and over. The fallout would be that the Dems will also use and abuse the hell out it down the road. What the GOP should do is use the hell out of and then vote to change the rules. Fair? Absolutely not. The Dems have playing bad for many years, it is our time!

 

[Greywolf224]

Yes, it can happen over and over. The fallout would be that the Dems will also use and abuse the hell out it down the road. What the GOP should do is use the hell out of and then vote to change the rules. Fair? Absolutely not. The Dems have playing bad for many years, it is our time!

@GOPerfect so tell me what is the sense of filerbustering if the dems are not going to gain anything? Is it just a show to the public of defiance and opposition?

 

[ProgSpear]

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Ask Dr. Sears: Intolerable Toddler Tantrums
5 Tantrum Red Flags

I think these all apply to the modern democrat party.

 

[Calculon]

They're hoping some RINOs will cave. I say if it's war they want give it to them. I'd stop the month long process to have Gorsuch meet with people immediately and force the vote. They're gonna try to filibuster anyway. Let's get it on.

 

[GOPerfect]

@GOPerfect so tell me what is the sense of filerbustering if the dems are not going to gain anything? Is it just a show to the public of defiance and opposition?

Yeah, basically.

Their egos and their arrogance blinded them. They thought they would be in power a very long time, they thought they were going to control the Senate for a very long time. That is why they came up with this stupid rule. Even in November they thought they were going to hold onto power, by the time they realized they lost, it was too late to change the rules again.

 

[Burzum]

These arcane Senate rules are self-imposed, McConnel needs to realize it is scorched earth. The New Democrat party has one plan, straight from their evil sugar daddy, George Soros, it is to "RESIST."

The only real question is who will Ryan and McConnel stand with, Trump and the people, or the globalist feces peddlers of: Soros, the Dems, and Koch brothers?