Senator Schumer is amazing- He let GOP leave hearing and then cut off debate on Garland

[LetMyPeopleVote]

That asshole Tom Cotton had a hold on Garland's nomination. After an all night session on the COVID recovery act, the GOP left the Senate which allowed to Schumer to pass to pass a couple of resolutions cutting off debate on Merrick Garland.

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[Thekaspervote]

1. Dems should never doubt his or Pelosi's leadership!! Absolutely masterful

[JohnSJ]

2. +++

[Blue Owl]

3. Hoist those fucks up on their own petards

[Cha]

4. Rt Brilliant! GO Sen Schumer.. TY!

[OnDoutside]

5. Can you just imagine McConnell's reaction ? I would like to think

at some point he'd appreciate the sleight of hand but I doubt it.

[moonscape]

6. How much longer would Cotton et al have been

able to stonewall a vote?

[UpInArms]

7. Perhaps indefinitely

Sections 2 and 3 of Rule VII (Morning Business) of the Standing Rules of the Senate outline the procedure for bringing motions to the floor of the Senate. Under these rules, "no motion to proceed to the consideration of any bill...shall be entertained...unless by unanimous consent." In practice, this means that a senator may privately provide notice to his/her party leadership of intent to object to a motion. The leadership can more easily schedule business if they know in advance which unanimous consent requests are likely to receive objection.[1]

The original intent of these sections was to protect a senator's right to be consulted on legislation that affected the senator's state or in which a senator had a great interest. The ability to place a hold would allow that senator an opportunity to study the legislation and to reflect on its implications before moving forward with further debate and voting.[2]

According to Congressional Research Service research, holds were not common until the 1970s, when they became more common due to a less collegial atmosphere and an increasing use of unanimous consent to move business to the floor.[3]

Holds, like filibusters, can be defeated through a successful cloture motion. However, the time required to bring around a cloture vote often allows fewer than 40 senators to block unimportant legislation when the majority is not willing to force the vote. The countermeasure to excessive holds may be increased determination on the part of the leadership to bring up measures despite holds, but the delay involved in cloture votes constrains the leader's ability to do this.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_hold

[FBaggins]

11. Incorrect

Not just because Garland had the votes all along... but because all Cotton could do was deny unanimous consent... which can’t keep the nomination from coming to the floor... it can only delay it by about a week. That’s why the articles talking about Cotton’s actions called it a delay rather than “blocking”... and said that the earliest the vote could occur was the next week.

[UpInArms]

12. I agree with you, FBaggins

And, at the same time ... Have so little faith in the Qpublicans that I believe they would have passed the torch to each other to continue the “delay”

[FBaggins]

13. That isn't an option either

You either have unanimous consent to proceed outside the normal process... or you have to follow the normal process. It isn’t a delay that each senator can evoke in series... it’s either unanimous or it isn’t.

[UpInArms]

14. So you say

https://politicaldictionary.com/words/tag-team-hold/

tag-team hold

A tag-team hold is when two or more senators agree to circumvent a 2011 resolution limiting secret senate holds to two days.

One senator will inform his party leader of his intent to place a hold. Before two days pass, the senator will withdraw his hold, at which time his tag-team partner submits a new hold request. The senators rotate in this manner, and the identity of neither is revealed.

[FBaggins]

15. This wasn't a two day secret hold

You’ll note that we all knew it was Cotton?

[UpInArms]

16. I never said you were wrong

I said I don’t trust the Qpublicans to not do something nefarious

[betsuni]

8. +1

[Beachnutt]

9. So Merrick Garland will become AG next week....Great news, look for

some rethug congress people to start their plan b which is to slither out of congress to spend more time with family Paul Ryan, John Boehner style.
I think turtle will try to crawl off into quietness due to his and Mrs McConnells corruption.

[FBaggins]

10. Evans don't know what he's talking about

There is no 2/3 cloture threshold. This has nothing to do with some clever strategy by Schumer. All Cotton could do was delay the confirmation by about a week and that’s what occurred.

[tanyev]

17. I'm gonna let Corey Lewandowski say it.