Is there any way the Dems can hold up a SC nominee at least until after the mid-terms?

[Raven]

[beachbum bob]

1. Perhaps, yes, it will add more motivation on both sides for voting...

[Freethinker65]

2. Nope. Trump could get Roseanne Barr confirmed if he wanted to.

[Raven]

3. Are you sure of that?

[Freethinker65]

9. Who would stop him?

[unblock]

10. well democrats couldn't stop him.

some republican senators would likely be able to convince him to nominate someone far more evil.

[unblock]

4. no, they only need 50 votes (plus pence if needed)

[yodermon]

17. Filibuster of SC justices has been nuked? when did that happen? n/t

[unblock]

19. gorsuch.

[yodermon]

22. DAMMIT you're right

don't know how i missed that.
UGH

[unblock]

24. yet another way the media sucks.

a monumentally significant change but they barely covered it, and mostly as if it were some arcane detail of congressional procedure.

[mythology]

21. That's how Gorsuch is on the court

[exboyfil]

5. Could the nominee be so repugnant

that Corker, Flake, and Collins all decide to withhold their votes.

No. It is done.

[AlexSFCA]

13. it will be another gorsuch, they all love him

[rso]

6. Kennedy

With 51 to 49 in favor of rethuglicans, and Pence’s ability to break a 50-50 tie, you would need two republicans to vote no, assuming all democrats also vote no.

[Ninga]

7. If we take to the streets and demand it......nt

[AlexSFCA]

8. NO, it's the same as gorsuch

the new justice will be confirmed well ahead of november elections. Same sex marriage ruling and roe v wade are officially on life support. I’ll give them two years tops. And of course we can forget about obamacare as we know it, not to mention medicare for all, the new SC will strike those lawa if passed in a heartbeat.

[exboyfil]

11. Any chance that

stare decisis would stay Roberts hand on Roe and Obergefell? He now has to think about his legacy as the swing justice (and chief justice).

[AlexSFCA]

12. not on those two issues

they werent acts of congress. He is more open to rulings if it’s acts of congress like ACA. I have no doubt he’d overturn those two cases in a pinch to ‘correct errors of the past’.

[superpatriotman]

14. If there's anyone who can do it

It's a Democrat!

[octoberlib]

15. Republicans got rid of the judicial filibuster, remember, so I don't think we have too many options.

[yodermon]

20. I thought they only got rid of it for non-SC judges n/t

[octoberlib]

23. You're right. McConnell got rid of it on SC judges

[tritsofme]

16. Nothing Democrats alone can do, the future of the Court basically rests in Susan Collins' hands.

[exboyfil]

18. And who else?

Would McCain make it back? All long to seat his replacement?