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Murkowski is out. 2 down, 2 to go.
Experts:
Trump and McConnell have to jump through 4 hoops to seat a Supreme Court justice
in just 6 weeks
Step 1: The presidential pick
The first thing to know is that the Cons ution of the United States gives the power of nomination to the president.
Article II, section 2 provides that the president “shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint … judges of the Supreme Court.”
Things can get tricky somewhere between nomination and confirmation. But changes made in the Senate – in particular, the rule change in 2017 that allows a Supreme Court Justice to be
confirmed with 51 votes
, instead of 60 – are likely to smooth the way considerably.
Step 2: The Senate Judiciary Committee
The Judiciary Committee currently has 22 members – 12 Republicans and 10 Democrats – and has a three-step process of its own.
First, it conducts an investigation into the nominee’s background.
Second, the committee holds a public hearing, in which the nominee is questioned and may give testimony about everything from her judicial philosophy to her stand on abortion.
Finally, the committee will report its recommendation to the full Senate as either favorable, negative, or no recommendation.
Step 3: The full Senate
the Senate is majority Republican, with 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two Independents, who both caucus with the Democrats.
closing debate on the motion so that the Senate could move on to a vote no longer requires a supermajority of 60 votes, just a bare 51-Senator majority.
the Democrats can insist on a minimum of 30 hours of debate, and then, they will be out of options to delay or stop a confirmation vote.
Step 4: The vote
The vote to confirm requires a simple majority of the senators present and voting.
it will be a first. The only time there has been a Senate vote on a Supreme Court nominee in an election year was
in 1916, when Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes resigned from the Court to run for president.
And that was 150 days before the election.
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Murkowski is out. 2 down, 2 to go.
Collins will still flip her vote November 4th.
I think you can also count on Mitt Romney. Trump’s favorite rag.
This could be Mitt’s MCCain thumb down moment.
Need 1 more after that though. Who the is that gonna be? I don’t see it.
Maybe, but fortunately Arizona is a special election to serve out McCain's term, so Kelly would take Mcsally's seat in November. Hopefully Kelly & Collins would cancel each other out.
This might be overly optimistic but if we got to a point where McConnell is trying to ram a judge through even though it's clear Biden won, senators like Pat Toomey theoretically start thinking about 2022.
Mitt is pro life though. It's a question of whether another pro life judge or being able to Trump is more important to him.
Wherever the he is Chuck Grassley might be too incapacitated to vote so Romney would give the Dems a 50-49 vote
are you this worked up over the dude who made the joke first? your faux outrage & concern is total bull .
for real!
the left and fill that supreme court seat! keep crying all you crybaby "men".
liberal judges = commie activists
RBG isn't the decision maker now and wasn't in 2016You should look up RBGs opinion 2016.
"im not conservative but i really want conservative filled supreme court"
Prediction - He's going to react angrily to this post.
prediction you're still a huge racist and made
keep
That's not a prediction, that's an opinion. The difference between the two is the kind of rudimentary distinction you learn in high school.
SCOTUS justices don't confirm other justices.You should look up RBGs opinion 2016.
who cares tou ing racist... go post some more cute racist terms like you always do racistWill then deny it over and over again.
and the dead don't dictate the living either so... fill that seat now!
Don't quote me, re , I have about as much interest in your responses as I have in the next Limp Bizkit album.
who cares tou ing racist... go post some more cute racist terms like you always do racistWill then deny it over and over again.
keep mentioning how angry he is and he's going to start wishing death on multiple people
I kinda understand his resentment towards RBG. She weighed <100 pounds and could probably out bench him
Him been pro life shouldn’t affect his delay of vote until after the election. If being pro life is all it takes for you to drop all pretenses of caring about norms, you’re just another heel worried about special interest.Mitt is pro life though. It's a question of whether another pro life judge or being able to Trump is more important to him.
Wherever the he is Chuck Grassley might be too incapacitated to vote so Romney would give the Dems a 50-49 vote
I would not be getting anyone’s hopes up - banking on Republicans to grow a conscience-
Dems are ing idiots if they legitimize this theft - as they did when Moscow Mitch stole the Merrick G seat
The SCOTUS is already illegitimate since that theft and playing along now and trying to appeal to other thieves is just idiotic.
Dems should just say- “the current SCOTUS is illegit and further thievery only makes it more illegitimate - we will not be a party to this and refuse to legitimize these SC thefts”
and then boycott any hearings and let the republicans do it all on their own.
The media is just as complicit by their breathless proclamations of “who will Trump choose?”
Instead of standing up when they see the GOP stealing our Democracy.
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