No, no, there isn’t any doubt.
Is it possible to filibuster from now until the first week of January when the new Senate takes over?
(Let’s not forget there is no FY21 budget and no FY21 defense authorization bill. I can see a government shutdown coming …)
No, I don’t think they can filibuster Supreme Court nominations any more. If they could, how’d we get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh?
Are you thinking they can somehow use the FY21 budget negotiations as some kind of leverage?
ETA: May we live in interesting times.
The President’s Supreme Court list for your reference.
Nancy should totally shut down government spending in retaliation. This is a dirty knife fight, and all hands on deck.
For other bills, maybe, but not for Ginsburg’s replacement. You only need a simple majority and Kavanaugh got in with just 50 votes. Unless Democrats can lure Romney, Collins and Murkowski over to their side - which they might.
If there is a president Biden, he will have to load the courts and end the filibuster. If he’s dumbass enough to declare he won’t do either, then fuck it, there’s no real reason to vote for him.
Then again, I guess that’s what the GOP extremists want me to think.
I picked the wrong year to stop sniffing glue.
Murkowski has reportedly said today that she will “not confirm until after Americans decide who their President will be.” This was before the announcement of Ginsburg’s passing. I haven’t been able to determine if she means that she’d wait until after the inauguration, too, or if she’d be okay with voting between the election and the inauguration.
I’ve also seen a report that Romney has said he won’t support seating a new Justice, but haven’t been able to find a cite.
Beside his/her family members no.
Plus most places have a set retirement age anyway.
The US Virgin Islands, not that the current occupant of the Oval Office (or as I call that cretin, “Occupy White House Illegally”) is aware of it, is, in fact, part of the United States and Occupy White House Illegally is their president, too (again, not that he knows that).
You can do both.
I voted already and all USA citizens can even if they are residents (or even citizens) of another country.
Cruz is on Trump’s shit-list these days, no way is he getting a nomination.
Nope, the filibuster option for Supremes nominations was removed by the Senate in 2017.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a true patriot. She will be missed.
Aware of that, tongue firmly in cheek, lol.
Lord knows we need the levity right now.
If Trump was smart he’d hold off on the nomination to increase rightwing turnout in November. Thankfully, he’s a fucking moron with poor impulse control.
Fond of worrying? Supreme court justice Stephen Breyer is 82 years old.
I’d hardly consider someone having a heart attack, brain cancer, or killing oneself in a solo DUI crash as good things.
Evil people dying doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Why should it?
What about impeaching Trump in the house and forcing the Senate to have a trial? Over and over if necessary?
Each Senate ‘trial’ and vote would take about 30 minutes.