Neil Gorsuch Confirmation Process Discussion (confirmed 54-45)

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It would be funny if this decision backfired on the GOP eventually. It would be funny in exactly four years from today we have a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate and they have to fill 3 Supreme Court vacancies.

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Awesome. Just hope Gorsuch is worth it.

if it was solely about Gorsuch he'd have well over 60 votes  to end debate and confirm him.  This is f[inks] Trump and the Pubs.  This isn't even about Garland, the person.  If Hillary was elected they wouldn't even care if she didn't re-submit Garland's name.

     Yeah, this was never about the people involved. The intellectual dishonesty of Schumer suggesting that it was disppointed me a little, but was not surprising. I would have had more respect if he could have just come out and maintained that they would be obstructing Gorsuch's nomination in protest over the obstruction of Garland's nomination.

GOP did Garland wrong. No doubt on that. But I support confirmation of Gorsuch because I am not playing this game of attempting to keep vacancies vacant under the next Democratic president. And there is guarantee that justices will be ideologically stagnant throughout their tenue.

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And with Gorsuch certainly being confirmed Democratic Senators opposing Gorsuch's nomination will not be much of an issue in the 2018 if at all.

Most voters will not even remember his name off the top of their head by November 2018.

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Awesome. Just hope Gorsuch is worth it.

if it was solely about Gorsuch he'd have well over 60 votes  to end debate and confirm him.  This is f[inks] Trump and the Pubs.  This isn't even about Garland, the person.  If Hillary was elected they wouldn't even care if she didn't re-submit Garland's name.

     Yeah, this was never about the people involved. The intellectual dishonesty of Schumer suggesting that it was disppointed me a little, but was not surprising. I would have had more respect if he could have just come out and maintained that they would be obstructing Gorsuch's nomination in protest over the obstruction of Garland's nomination.

GOP did Garland wrong. No doubt on that. But I support confirmation of Gorsuch because I am not playing this game of attempting to keep vacancies vacant under the next Democratic president. And there is guarantee that justices will be ideologically stagnant throughout their tenue.

You mean, they did Garland right. The huge risk paid off boatloads.

Sir, what was done to Merrick Garland was wrong. This was not against Merrick Garland it was against Barack Obama.  

This was a vacancy that the last president was supposed to fill not some clown.

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You have no guarantee on how Gorsuch or any other future Supreme Court nominee will vote on the issues facing us in five, ten, 15 or 20 years down the road either.

And this could come back to haunt the Republicans the next time the Democrats control the White House and Senate.

You know Gorsuch hates gays correct?

Plus I am 78% serious here. The fact that this gamble paid off does make me wonder if Senate Republicans knew Russia would interfere in the election...

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Here is a great idea: Let's change the rules that mandates any Supreme Court nominee from the President receives a hearing.

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Want to save the Supreme Court for the left wing?

In 2020 nominate a Democratic candidate who is not under investigation by the FBI. Whether it was fair or not the press of it was bad.

Simple.

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Let's now put 10 20-something year-old judges on the Court who will be willing to not only overturn Roe v. Wade, but also say that all first-degree murder laws apply to the killing of babies nationwide.  Ending abortion is more important than our system of government itself.  I'm serious!

Hangers are for hanging up clothes not back alley medical procedures sir.

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Let's now put 10 20-something year-old judges on the Court who will be willing to not only overturn Roe v. Wade, but also say that all first-degree murder laws apply to the killing of babies nationwide.  Ending abortion is more important than our system of government itself.  I'm serious!

delete your account

There is no option for that here. But I loved how he said that he was "serious".

He could well be serious.. but just having the name "ExtremeRepublican" can give clues that it is a parody account. Not accusing him of anything though.