Common Dreams: SHUT DOWN the Senate!

[Grasswire2]

[link:https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/05/democrats-can-block-kavanaugh-nomination-if-they-want?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork|

The tactic that put Gorsuch on the Court was extreme but constitutional. The tactic that blocks Brett Kavanaugh is no more extreme, and no less constitutional.

It’s this: First, if Republicans don’t agree to table the nomination until 2019, every Democratic senator but one will boycott the Senate chamber for the rest of the year. Then the one remaining Democrat, a rotating position, will rise to deny unanimous consent on every matter the Senate tries to take up, including each quorum call. This means all 50 Republicans (with the passing of John McCain) must be in or near the chamber on any day Republicans wish to do business.

Even if Democrats execute this perfectly though, and Kavanaugh is confirmed, they will nonetheless prove that the “constitutional revolution” his confirmation guarantees — which even Republican voters will come to hate — is entirely of Republican doing.

They could still win every vote they want to win — 50 Republicans and one Democrat does constitute a quorum — but the price would be high. No single Republican senator could stray far from the chamber on days the Senate was in session — she could not go home, fundraise outside of DC or lunch with lobbyists away from the Capitol. Business as usual would end, and only votes Republicans deemed crucial could pass. The life of a Republican senator would drastically change.

This isn’t just a threat to disrupt the Kavanaugh vote. If Democrats do only that, they will lose. This is a threat to disrupt the Senate itself, and the life of each Republican senator, for the rest of the year — unless Republicans table the nomination until the next Senate is seated.

[Stuart G]

1. Yes, we must stop this at any cost..But that is not up to me, it is up to those in the Senate.

Are the Democrats in the Senate willing to do the same?

[TomSlick]

4. Interesting idea.

I'm not sure you would need all the Democrats in the Senate to sign-on to really gum-up the works, but you would need very nearly all of them. The Democratic Senators in contested elections probably wouldn't go-along.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I support this 100%

I will call the Dem senators and tell them so.
[phone] DC Senate Offices. CALL. CALL. CALL!

[Grasswire2]

3. Me too. Share it around!

Common Dreams has an OP on FB asking that it be shared.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I don't use social media

so I am limited, but my phone finger knows the DC Offices and I can dial it in my sleep. RESIST!