Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court
Source: Washington Post
The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, capping more than a year of bitter partisan bickering over the ideological balance of the nations highest court.
Senators voted to confirm Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, who will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court.
Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, will become the 113th Supreme Court justice as early as Friday. He replaces the late Justice Antonin Scalia, whos sudden death in February 2016 sparked a year-long partisan fight over the ideological balance of the court.
Gorsuch is expected to be sworn-in in the coming days, allowing him to join the high court for the final weeks of its term, which ends in June. Its likely he will want to be sworn-in quickly even if a ceremonial event is held later so that he can get to work. The court is scheduled to meet Thursday for a private session to decide whether to accept or reject a long list of cases that would be heard next term. And the last round of oral arguments for this term is scheduled to begin in just 10 days, on April 17.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-set-to-confirm-neil-gorsuch-to-supreme-court/2017/04/07/da3cd738-1b89-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html
old guy
(3,283 posts)lark
(23,065 posts)Perfect song for this fucked up time. Repugs should not have a majority on SCOTUS, they fucking stole it. I think Dems should just vote no on every single bill, even raising the debt limit. Deny Repugs a quorum, vote no, delay, obstruct, deny, do everything possible to fuck McTurtle and the Traitors while they are doing their utmost best to fuck over everyone not a 1%er.
iluvtennis
(19,835 posts)JudyM
(29,206 posts)FakeNoose
(32,599 posts)JudyM
(29,206 posts)Initech
(100,043 posts)Mitch McConnell needs a boot in his ass for this!
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I wish I had a magic formula for taking back the House and Senate.
I am assuming that what is going to have to happen is that voters will feel so much personal pain between now and then that they can be persuaded to get off the "Trump Train."
I don't know.
For now, there's not a hell of a lot we can do about anything other than to go feral in 2018.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)was just completed.
McConnell will go down in history as a villain, and a traitor to democracy and the people's will.
If there is a hell. he will surely burn for all eternity.
rurallib
(62,387 posts)Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
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FBaggins
(26,721 posts)(apart from hold off for the next appointment)
Blame for this loss more clearly belongs with Reid.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)The Republican filibusters on Obama nominees were UNPRECEDENTED.
Reid broke the gridlock but held back on Supreme Court confirmations.
McConnell held back Merrick Garland's nomination - again, UNPRECEDENTED.
And reversed the will of the Senate on the Gorsuch nomination - once more UNPRECEDENTED.
This isn't partisan. This is fact.
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FBaggins
(26,721 posts)Nor can Reid be made to look like the reasonable saint. He made perfectly clear that he would blow the rule up for Supreme Court nominees if one came up and was filibustered.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)The Republicans under McConnell blew this up.
Not letting Obama nominees have a vote just because they could - more times than all filibusters of all previous presidents combined! - for a couple years! - was just too much.
What Reid did was inevitable given the Republican intransigence.
Then, it wasn't about Merrick Garland. It was about the election.
Whereas, it WAS about Neil Gorsuch, and a more moderate nominee who could get 60 votes.
dubyadiprecession
(5,697 posts)cstanleytech
(26,248 posts)did not do.
FBaggins
(26,721 posts)The didn't start with Reid. Some Republicans were threatening to do it a decade or so earlier... until several Senators on both sides forced them to back down to retain the rule. Each successive change in party control has moved the needle closer to midnight.
cstanleytech
(26,248 posts)control of either House and eventually the power will shift back to the Democrats and I suspect the Democrats will probably tell the Repugnants to fuck off and pass alot of shit that should have been passed long ago because the Repugnants have shown that the days of trying to be reasonable with a Repugnant are over.
FBaggins
(26,721 posts)That we would regret blowing things up... and now we do.
Sure... Republicans will eventually regret it too... but that's not very reassuring if we can't take it back before someone like Ginsburg leaves the court.
I suspect the Democrats will probably tell the Repugnants to fuck off and pass alot of shit
The legislative filibuster is unaffected by the change - and would be much harder to kill.
cstanleytech
(26,248 posts)pulled that the Democrats will sit idle when they have the majority next time? I kind of doubt it, no I think they will jettison having to have Repugnants on board for anything the next time.
Alpeduez21
(1,750 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)And one day, the Dems will do the same to the GOP, who now thinks THEY will always be in charge
inwiththenew
(972 posts)For the next probably two decades. Wonderful.
Let's hope there are no more vacancies between now and January 2019.
FBaggins
(26,721 posts)Democrats must have elected to not use their remaining hours of debate? Perhaps related to the attack in Syria?
BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)per the WaPo article -
But they opted to cut it short with a recess looming, Gorsuch was set for confirmation during the lunch hour on Friday, allowing senators to start leaving Washington for a two-week recess.
FBaggins
(26,721 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)They are gone until April 24th I believe, where they have a week to maybe do something with the debt ceiling and make an attempt to keep the government from shutting down when the FY17 Continuing Resolution expires April 29th.
FakeNoose
(32,599 posts)Time for these guys to all go home and catch hell from their constituents.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)groundloop
(11,514 posts)Not only did they keep a well qualified Obama appointee out of the Supreme Court, they crammed through a right wing hack with questionable credentials. I see Gorsuch as being roughly equivalent to Clarence Thomas in both intellect and ideology.
jeffreyi
(1,938 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)NBachers
(17,083 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,218 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)He will become a right-wing activist judge.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Back alleys, here come womenkind!
Absolutely sickens me!
rurallib
(62,387 posts)by the time these clowns get done.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Women will need a burka and to be escorted by a male relative before these clowns are happy. Exhibit A? Mike Pence.
totodeinhere
(13,057 posts)But if Kennedy retires while Trump is in office and the GOP controls the Senate then watch out.
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)Not the Republicans in office, anyway. It's one of their red-meat wedge issues they use to get their base -- who does care -- to the polls. No Roe v Wade, less incentive to show up at the polls.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)n/t
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MFM008
(19,803 posts)Has had a huge week.
He's "presidenting" now.
Huge" wins" after almost 75 days of utter FAIL.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,319 posts)It was in the Washington Post magazine for Sunday, June 18, 2006. The title on the cover was "Pfc. John Hart Didn't Have to Die."
By April Witt
Sunday, June 18, 2006
The world's most powerful military failed to provide the armor that would have saved scores of American lives. One father wouldlike to know why
Private 1st Class John Hart whispered into the phone so he wouldn't be overheard. It was just a matter of time, he said, before his buddies and he bumped down some back road in Iraq right into an ambush. They were so exposed, the somber young soldier told his dad, back home in Bedford, Mass. They were riding around in unarmored Humvees with canvas tops and gaping openings on the sides where doors should be. That seemed pretty stupid now that people were shooting at them and lobbing rockets. John, a 20-year-old gunner whose job it was to keep his head up and return fire, felt hung out in the breeze. ... As John's father, Brian Hart, remembers the conversation, he listened with growing alarm, then stepped into his home office so his wife, Alma, wouldn't hear. It was October 11, 2003.
....
"I LOVE THIS GREEN," Brian says. He and Alma are walking hand in hand on Lexington Green. It is dusk the next evening. Brian points to the statue of John Parker, who led the town's minutemen. "I love that statue." ... "Over there is where Paul Revere rode," he says, pointing out Battle Road, which leads to Concord. John, when he was preparing for basic training, used to run that road carrying 20 pounds of books in a rucksack. ... "This is where the Revolution started," Brian says. "Forty Minutemen against 700 British. Twenty-to-one, just facing off. The farmers didn't give up."
Brian comes often to the green. He thinks about what it must have felt like to be one of those farmers. "You know you can only last so long, and then somebody's got to come and help you," he says.
Brian thinks John must have known, in his final moment, how those farmers felt. "I think courage is fighting a battle that you know you are probably going to lose," Brian says. "I think that's what John did. You realize you are going to lose that fight, but you fight it anyway."
April Witt is a staff writer for the Magazine. She and Brian Hart will be fielding questions and comments about this article Monday at noon at washingtonpost.com/liveonline.
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Rhiannon12866
(204,821 posts)So much for a balanced court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to be in this for the long haul...
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,821 posts)onenote
(42,609 posts)And why would we want a "balanced" court? Some day down the line, I hold out hope that a Democratic president could have the opportunity to replace Roberts and/or Thomas and/or Alito and/or Kennedy. I would hope to high heaven that president didn't seek to maintain some "balance" if he/she had the opportunity to make the court have a 6/3 or 7/2 divide with liberals in the majority.
Rhiannon12866
(204,821 posts)Alito, Thomas and Roberts are there for life. Garland wasn't exactly a liberal, but he had a lot of support from both "sides" until the president nominated him. He really deserved a hearing. This Gorsuch is a nightmare.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)Thanks a lot Mr. and Mrs. Hoodwink. You fucked us really hard when you fell for all the fake news headlines about what a bad person Hillary Clinton was. But I'm sure things would be just a terrible had she still won, right? FU.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)onenote
(42,609 posts)Heidi Heitkamp
Joe Manchin
Joe Donnelly
One repub didn't vote because he is recovering from surgery.
cab67
(2,990 posts)Retirement of either would be catastrophic.
minstrel76
(83 posts)May the Republican hypocrite tyrants and those who support them pay dearly for their power grab. They represent everything that it antithetical to what America should stand for. NOLI OLVIDERE!
Turbineguy
(37,296 posts)Might as well use it t fuck up the country.
CrispyQ
(36,424 posts)The dems will not have any influence for decades, if ever.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)sdfernando
(4,927 posts)I predict now that Gorsuch has been confirmed we will start to see the abandoning of the orange one by the rethuglican party. Won't happen all at once but it will start and pick up steam quickly.
mountain grammy
(26,599 posts)Freethinker65
(10,001 posts)LisaM
(27,794 posts)This guy is an absolute dirtbag.
Alpeduez21
(1,750 posts)"This guy" is part and parcel of a republican administration. A republican administration that is an absolute dirtbag.
It is not just one guy. It is many old white racist pieces of crap. Voted in by racist pieces of crap.
stuffmatters
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It is a tragedy for America and our Democracy. I never ever would have imagined 50 years ago that the John Birch Society could be in charge of all three arms of our government They were the crazy people!
Portland_Anni
(164 posts)... a few decent nominees to other open seats on the high court down the throats of the disingenuous and conniving GOP.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)then it's all over.
onenote
(42,609 posts)The Senate doesn't pick the nominees. The best the Democrats can do is refuse to confirm a nominee. At best we can force certain offices to remain vacant.