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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSinema and Manchin have voted for nearly every judicial nominee
What makes you think they will vote against a SCOTUS nominee? They are against removing the fillibuster, not Supreme Court nominees
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/22/1075049532/president-biden-is-replacing-federal-judges-at-a-record-breaking-pace
mcar
(42,278 posts)will nominate a jurist who was approved by the Senate in 2021. Thus, the bulk of the vetting is already done.
ColinC
(8,279 posts)They have 6-3 majority, what reason would he have? I mean it's McConnell so don't be surprised, but I don't think he has announced his plans on this yet.
W_HAMILTON
(7,835 posts)He's not the Majority Leader in the Senate anymore and he removed the 60-vote threshold to confirm Supreme Court Justices, so, Democrats can "go it alone" if need be.
ColinC
(8,279 posts)But we don't even know if he is going to.
That is his motive, always. Expecting him to act reasonably is a major mistake.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Just asking.
Looking for all the possibilities because not one Repub will vote to confirm Biden's choice.
This is their chance to stick a permanent fork in the 'liberal' SC forever. McConnell's already on the phone to his rotten troops.
Now if Ginny Thomas's hubby would just leave...🤬
ColinC
(8,279 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)How fitting that Kamala Harris would be the vote that sends a Pro-Roe Woman of Color to sit on the SC with that racist beer swilling, macho, frat boy, Kavanaugh.
Make it happen!!!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)They are tragically mislead in terms of the fillibuster and Manchin on BBB, but beyond that, we have no reason yet to question their support for liberal justices.
Autumn
(44,981 posts)because she was a woman? Possible IMO. God knows Boofer being a serial rapist was worse than she was, though both are trash and put in to protect Trump and the Puke party.
ColinC
(8,279 posts)One of them would probably be fine.
In It to Win It
(8,225 posts)and was not on the ballot in 2020 on the Barrett confirmation vote.
Autumn
(44,981 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(10,972 posts)And it would've cost him his seat in 2018. See every other Dem who was up for reelection in 2018 and voted against him.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)I'm not saying they won't confirm a SCOTUS appointment, but at the same time I don't think other judicial appointments, which don't have the same kind of exposure, are an indicator of how these two will vote on nationally prominent appointments.
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lame54
(35,262 posts)Torchlight
(3,293 posts)Nominations of a supreme court justice is limelight level-- my guess is that after their actions of the past three months, both will do whatever they think gives them the best press and largest stage.
ColinC
(8,279 posts)To the appellate court, but against them for the supreme court? That is likely what would happen.
Torchlight
(3,293 posts)Easy to rewrite narratives. Something we see daily in for-profit media.
ColinC
(8,279 posts)He has also voted against every chance to amend the fillibuster. If it is consistency he is looking for then he will vote for a SCOTUS nominee.
Torchlight
(3,293 posts)Precedence is not concrete, and not something to hang one's hat on. 'It Does Not Follow' is a logical fallacy.
ColinC
(8,279 posts)I doubt he will vote against a nominee, especially with breyers decision -i imagine he wouldn't have made this decision without good reason Manchin and Sinema would support a nominee.
Either way, breyer stays until a replacement is made. I imagine he could reverse his decision if there is no replacement for the entirety of Biden's term. But that seems very unlikely.
helpisontheway
(5,005 posts)believe Mitch is promising her the world to side with them. I will never forget Sinema looking towards Mitch and then doing a cutsy as she cast her vote. And Manchin is a Democrat in name only. However, he is probably the best we could get (which aint saying much) out of that state.
Tickle
(2,488 posts)would be a repub. It will all work out the way it is suppose to