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Title: Trump selects Gorsuch for U.S. Supreme Court
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WoodTV 8
URL Source: http://woodtv.com/2017/01/31/who-is ... ck-announcement-tuesday-night/
Published: Jan 31, 2017
Author: JULIE PACE and MARK SHERMAN, Associated
Post Date: 2017-01-31 20:37:22 by Hondo68
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Comments: 30
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated federal appeals judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. The 49-year-old Gorsuch has served on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver since 2006, after being appointed by President George W. Bush. He once worked at the Supreme Court as a law clerk. If approved by the Senate, Gorsuch would take the seat left vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia died last year. Republicans refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee for the seat, saying the choice should go Obama’s successor. He would be the youngest justice since Clarence Thomas joined the court in 1991 at age 43. Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a prime-time address from the White House. Poster Comment:
President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to announce Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. Gorsuch stands with his wife Louise.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Is it a good pick?
The more I study President Trumps Supreme Court nominee, the more I like him and his history. But, let me remind you that men do change once they have a job for life with little or no chance of ever being removed, remember Justice David Hackett Souter? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/how-justice-souter-almost-left-supreme-court-blaze-glory/328163/ Judge Neil Gorsuch’s appointment has the NY Slimes and other Fake News outlets trying desperately to reignite the cold war between the Patriots and the Republic hating left, Christians and the forces of satan aka the party of the democrat. It does seem that the fools on the left have not thought out what a all out shooting war in the US would look like and the results to them. There is no way President Trump can trust Republican Senators Susan Collins, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the other flake from Arizona, Jeff Flake(up for re-election in 2018), so four or five Democrats are needed, and that folks is where you have to come in. Here is a list of democrats up for reelection in 2018: The thirteen that are starred are the ones that are most vulnerable if they refuse to support the Presidents nominees. Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin) * More on how to destroy their chances of being reelected after we see how they are acting at the end of this week. As Christians, we are duty bound to support our fellow Christians we are also called to judge righteously between good and evil. I call on all of you to pray daily for God’s protection, wisdom and guidance for President Trump, his family and his administration. Only Christ can prevent a civil war in this nation of ours. Christ has given us a second George Washington by the name of Donald John Trump, it is up to us to protect him and keep him, the tories are out to get him. More later today. 5:04AM Rule XIX (the two-speech rule) Fortunately, invoking the nuclear option isn’t the only way a Senate majority can confirm a Supreme Court justice in the face of minority obstruction. In a recent Heritage Foundation paper, Ed Corrigan and I detail how Senate rules empower a majority to overcome a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee — without having to invoke cloture or using the nuclear option. Specifically, a majority may use Rule XIX (the two-speech rule) to shorten the amount of time members are able to filibuster. This rule prohibits any senator from giving more than two speeches on any one question during the same legislative day. In the Senate’s rules, the terms “legislative day” and “calendar day” do not mean the same thing. A legislative day ends only when the Senate adjourns and therefore may last much longer than the 24 hours that define a calendar day. Indeed, one particularly long legislative day in 1980 lasted 162 calendar days, spanning a period from Jan. 3 until June 12. Once a senator has given two speeches during the same legislative day, he or she may not speak again. The Senate votes when there are no members remaining on the floor who wish to and are allowed to speak. At that point, the support of a simple majority of the senators present and voting is sufficient for confirmation. Using the two-speech rule to confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court pick is straightforward.
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#16. To: A K A Stone (#1)
good pick?
Sherrod Brown (Ohio) *
Maria Cantwell (Washington)
Benjamin Cardin (Maryland)
Thomas Carper (Delaware)
Robert Casey (Pennsylvania) *
Joe Donnelly (Indiana) *
Dianne Feinstein (California)
Kirsten Gillibrand (New York) *
Marin Heinrich (New Mexico) *
Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota)
Mazie Hirono (Hawaii)
Tim Kaine (Virginia) *
Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota)
Joe Manchin (West Virginia) *
Claire McCaskill (Missouri) *
Robert Menendez (New Jersey) * (A PizzaGate investigation will put this baby raper under the jail.)
Christopher Murphy (Connecticut)
Bill Nelson (Florida) *
Debbie Stabenow (Michigan)
Jon Tester (Montana) *
Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) *
Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island)
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