JimofPennsylvan
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- Jun 6, 2007
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Senate Republicans should hold off until the next Supreme Court nominee, the nominee after Neil Gorsuch, to use the nuclear option (only fifty-one instead of sixty votes needed to break a filibuster for SC nominees) if the Democrats filibuster Gorsuch. Because once the Republicans do this they will be weakening America's democracy indefinitely because if Presidents know they only need fifty votes to get their Supreme Court nominee through they will pick a more ideologically extreme candidates, candidates more in line with their ideology. A Supreme court that is more extreme from an ideology standpoint will make more extreme legal decisions and this will not be good for the country in part it will create ripple effects that bring significant change not always for the good. Prudence clearly calls for stability and reliability in our country's legal system the nuclear option move lessens these qualities being found in the system.
If the Democrats filibuster the Neil Gorsuch nomination, maybe for the next nominee they will chooses the perspective that their actions for Gorsuch was just payback for the Republicans for not holding hearings on former President Obama's Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland and for the next nominee they will return to the informal agreement between the parties that Presidents can select nominees of their ideological persuasion and as long as their qualified as an appellate Judge for the nation's highest court they get confirmed, there is no litmus test on ideological leanings. Republicans may be thinking that the Democrats used the nuclear option in 2013 on lower court federal court nominees so lets give them a dose of their own medicine now. The Democrats hurt the country with that move for the aforementioned reasons people that really care about the country should hope that after a year or so to teach the Democrats a lesson the Republican party will reinstate the sixty vote threshold to break a filibuster for all federal judicial nominations. Senate Republican leadership needs to remember that this matter is not a political competition they have the future well-being of the country to a significant degree in their hands!
If the Democrats filibuster the Neil Gorsuch nomination, maybe for the next nominee they will chooses the perspective that their actions for Gorsuch was just payback for the Republicans for not holding hearings on former President Obama's Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland and for the next nominee they will return to the informal agreement between the parties that Presidents can select nominees of their ideological persuasion and as long as their qualified as an appellate Judge for the nation's highest court they get confirmed, there is no litmus test on ideological leanings. Republicans may be thinking that the Democrats used the nuclear option in 2013 on lower court federal court nominees so lets give them a dose of their own medicine now. The Democrats hurt the country with that move for the aforementioned reasons people that really care about the country should hope that after a year or so to teach the Democrats a lesson the Republican party will reinstate the sixty vote threshold to break a filibuster for all federal judicial nominations. Senate Republican leadership needs to remember that this matter is not a political competition they have the future well-being of the country to a significant degree in their hands!
