It
does not take a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing on
Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination. Gorsuch will be confirmed, one
way or another. If Senator Charles Schumer makes good on his pledge to
filibuster the Gorsuch nomination, the Republicans will exercise their
so-called nuclear option to end the filibuster rule for Supreme Court
nominees, after which Gorsuch’s nomination will be confirmed, perhaps on
a strict party-line vote of 52-to-48 Senators. The Democrats cannot get
over the fact that the Republicans did not need to filibuster to
stonewall Merrick Garland, given their majority in the Senate. They
could just sit on his nomination. But since the Democrats could not stop
the hearings for Gorsuch, they have chosen to act out their unhappiness
by raising frivolous objections against an exceptionally well-qualified
nominee who enjoys the respect of everyone who has worked with him.
http://www.hoover.org/research/gorsuch-v-schumer?utm_source=hdr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-03-28
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