{"id":30485,"date":"2017-03-23T12:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30485"},"modified":"2017-03-23T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:30:15","slug":"im-not-sure-what-the-underlying-strategy-is-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30485","title":{"rendered":"I’m Not Sure What The Underlying Strategy Is On This"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker<\/a> at Power Line<\/a> is reporting this morning that the Democrats plan to filibuster<\/a> the Supreme Court nomination<\/a> of Neil Gorsuch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

It seems odd, too, that Schumer<\/a> didn\u2019t even wait until the hearing on Gursuch\u2019s nomination has been concluded to announce the Democrats\u2019 filibuster. This would appear to support the view that the decision is political and has little to do with the merits of Gorsuch\u2019s nomination.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how to explain Schumer\u2019s announcement, except as evidence that 1) Senate Democrats perceive that they need to cater to the party\u2019s hysterical base, and 2) they are convinced that the filibuster, as to Supreme Court nominees, is dead in any event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an awkward decision–Judge Gorsuch was confirmed by voice vote<\/a> by the U.S. Senate<\/a> on July 20, 2006. In September 2016. He was respected by members of both parties. He has done nothing in his career since his 2006 confirmation that warrants any changed votes. It is unfortunate that the choosing of a Supreme Court Justice<\/a> is now a political exercise rather than a judgement on qualifications. I would like to point out that the Republicans<\/a> gave Democratic presidents<\/a> most of their nominees (with the exception of following the Biden Rule<\/a>, which the Democrats have now chosen to ignore). An elected President should be able to put his nominees on the Supreme Court. In this case, because President Trump released a list of potential nominees during the election campaign, the people who voted for him obviously approved on the list. The filibuster may please the base of the Democratic Party, but I suspect it will make moderate Democrats (if there are any left) very unhappy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker at Power Line is reporting this morning that the Democrats plan to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch. The article reports: It seems odd, too, that Schumer didn\u2019t even wait until the hearing on Gursuch\u2019s nomination … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,1925,10602,3415,933,9160],"class_list":["post-30485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-filibuster","tag-neil-gorsuch","tag-republican-party-united-states","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","tag-united-states-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30486,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30485\/revisions\/30486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}