Republicans Change ANOTHER Rule To Screw Democrats
May 9, 2018
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as posted by the channelIn this Majority Report clip, Democrats are so slow to change rules to punish Republicans when they're in power. Republicans are fast. Maybe Democrats should be fast.
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"“Fact-Check: No Democratic chair of the Judiciary Committee has EVER held a hearing for a judicial nominee over the objection of a Republican senator.”
— Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), in a tweet, Feb. 15, 2018
When politicians cry “fact-check,” it’s catnip for The Fact Checker. Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says Republicans are torching a century-old custom that allows individual senators to block judicial nominees from their home states.
It wouldn’t be the first Senate tradition to go on the chopping block in recent years.
When it was under Democratic control, the Senate in 2013 ended the ability of opponents to filibuster trial and appellate court nominations (and presidential appointments); previously, it required 60 votes to invoke cloture and end debate, allowing for a vote on a nominee. Republicans, after they took control, ended the ability to filibuster Supreme Court nominations in 2017. Nominees can now be confirmed with a simple majority of 51 votes."*
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