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kentuck

(115,638 posts)
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:48 AM Mar 2017

Democrats should be in no hurry to confirm Gorsuch.

As if there was some sort of urgency.

Since the Republicans were willing to let the Supreme Court be short-handed for almost a year, and refused to hold any hearing for Merrick Garland, Democrats should make them pay a price.

If that means holding up the nomination of Gorsuch for one year, then so be it. The Democrats should use the nomination as a negotiating tool with the Republicans. They want Gorsuch bad. If the Republicans get him on the Court too quickly, they will have little incentive to get to the bottom of the Trump/Russia connection.

Until there is a full investigation, the Gorsuch nomination should be put on ice. Democrats need to stop being naive.

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Democrats should be in no hurry to confirm Gorsuch. (Original Post) kentuck Mar 2017 OP
i have written all my state reps and told them... samnsara Mar 2017 #1
No Gorsuch world wide wally Mar 2017 #2
NO confirmation during TrumPutin residency in WH--just like Cruz threatened had HRC won BlueCaliDem Mar 2017 #3
Wait for the next president! Initech Mar 2017 #4

samnsara

(18,781 posts)
1. i have written all my state reps and told them...
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:49 AM
Mar 2017

...NO trump lifetime appointments until this Russian connection is investigated!!

BlueCaliDem

(15,444 posts)
3. NO confirmation during TrumPutin residency in WH--just like Cruz threatened had HRC won
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:15 AM
Mar 2017

the E.C. and become president, i.e., NO confirmation for ANY candidate TrumPutin puts forward for the next FOUR YEARS.

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500560120/senate-republicans-could-block-potential-clinton-supreme-court-nominees

Republicans have threatened to keep Scalia's old seat open and shrink the SCOTUS out of politics had Hillary won the E.C. and become president.

Democrats MUST give as good as they get. No more "coming to a gun fight with a daisy".

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