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Dems have enough to fillibuster Gorsuch nomination
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GoldenRod
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Dems have enough to fillibuster Gorsuch nomination
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Senate Democrats now have enough votes to try to block Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with a filibuster, setting up a showdown with Republicans who plan to confirm him anyway.
The crucial 41st vote came from Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware who announced his decision Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee met to vote on Gorsuch's nomination.
Coons said that he had decided to oppose President Donald Trump's nominee over concerns that include his vague answers in his hearing.
Coons' opposition will prevent Republicans from reaching the 60 votes they need to move Gorsuch over procedural hurdles to a final Senate vote. Determined to confirm him despite Democratic objections, they will likely change Senate rules later this week to reduce the threshold from 60 to a simple majority.
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Senator Lindsay Graham says flatly that Republicans will change the Senate's rules if Democrats use a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Under current rules, Supreme Court nominees need at least 60 votes to end debate and hold a vote on their confirmation. So far, 40 Democrats have publicly said they will try to block Gorsuch's nomination.
That's just one shy of the number needed to stop the nomination under current Senate rules.
The South Carolina Republican says his GOP colleagues will change the rules to enable them to confirm a Supreme Court nominee with a simple majority of 51 votes.
Graham says: "The Senate's traditions are going to change over this man. This says more about the Senate than it does Judge Gorsuch."
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Wow... GOP is just going to change the rules to get what they want.
However, if they do this, watch how much they b!tch in a few years when Dems do the same thing with the new rules and force all sorts of things through.
There are checks and balances for a reason....
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