Yep. If you are going to be murdered and you get a choice between a bullet to the head or by dismemberment you choose bullet. Reid was forced into action by intransience from Mitch and the repubs
The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
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Reid was the first to use the nuclear option for federal judges and eliminated the filibuster.
McConnell basically told him what would happen.
When then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option to break the filibuster on President Obama’s nominees, Mitch McConnell warned that it set a dangerous precedent. He also predicted that Republicans would not hesitate to also change Senate rules once they won back the majority. McConnell will likely have to do just that later this week to break the Democrats’ filibuster on Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. Washington Week looks back at our conversation in 2013 to see how we arrived at this contentious moment.
Last Congress, Senate Democrats worked with the president to approve 204 judicial nominees, rejecting only 10 of the most extreme.”We were talking about Reid and the nuclear option. D’s prevented Bush Federal judge nominees from coming to a vote.
Bush to renominate blocked judges
Refusing to be brushed off by Democratic opposition in the Senate, President Bush plans to nominate for a second time 20 people who did not receive up or down votes on their nominations for federal judgeships.www.nbcnews.com
Of the 10 appeals court nominees blocked by the Democrats, four are missing from Bush’s new list of nominees for the federal bench.
Charles Pickering Sr.’s bruising battle for a seat on a federal appeals court abruptly ended when Bush, in a recess appointment, elevated him without congressional approval. But on Dec. 9, Pickering announced his retirement, saying he would not seek nomination for a permanent seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The other three are: Miguel Estrada, a native of Honduras and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy who has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee; California judge Carolyn Kuhl; and Claude Allen, whose Virginia residency upset Maryland’s two senators because the post to which he was nominated on the 4th Circuit typically is held by a Marylander.
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Of President Bush's judicial nominees, the Senate has confirmed 61 Circuit Court judges and 261 District Court judges (as of October 6, 2008). Today more than one-third of all Federal judges have been appointed by him – and these men and women are jurists of the highest caliber with an abiding belief in the sanctity of our Constitution.
And how many of those came about because of Reids actions
Yep everything was hunky-dory and all of a sudden Old Harry Reid decided to invoke the nuclear option for no reason at all.
Also, if you go chart by chart BHO was lower on pretty much every category except for a couple by Ronnie R. In RR's case I think it was because of lack of openings and not politics
There were 105 judge vacancies when Obama left office because Mitch McConnell refused to hold votes on his nominees.
I find it interesting that other than Bins sidetrack there are only maybe 2 repubs responses to the actual thread article.
And yet, you actually couldn't respond to the point and all you could manage to do is throw insults. Take the L and leave the thread Goldie.
I’ll sidetrack it even further. Reid knowingly/intentionally lied of the Senate floor when he said Mitt Romney doesn’t pay taxes. He did that because he knew he couldn’t be prosecuted or sued for slander.
After Obama beat Romney and Reid was asked why he lied, he said it worked didn’t it. Reid was a wormy POS.
Which he totally would have done if Reid hadn't done the nuclear option dirty. Same with getting Garland on the Supreme Ct.
All Harry Reid's fault. LOL.
We’re becoming too much like the Demmies. Instead of responding we make personal attacks and deflect.
Sound about right?
You conveniently leave out the behind the scenes work of ALEC.
We’re discussing the SC. You moved the goalposts to be able to do your both sides nonsense.We were talking about Reid and the nuclear option. D’s prevented Bush Federal judge nominees from coming to a vote.
Bush to renominate blocked judges
Refusing to be brushed off by Democratic opposition in the Senate, President Bush plans to nominate for a second time 20 people who did not receive up or down votes on their nominations for federal judgeships.
We weren’t, the discussion started about Reid using the nuclear option for federal judges.
The dems DID change the rules and the Republicans told the dems they would rue the day, but the dems refused to listen and now complain there are conservative judges. They got what they deserved.
