Judges consider extending federal workplace protections for sexual orientation

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4. I think they will, if they get stymied

Remember Reid already did that with fed judge nominations. So the R's can just say they are doing the same with SCOTUS.

I personally think there will be some D defections, especially if tRump (or really, Pence) finds an Alito clone who doesn't have that much of a record and can be snuck through. It will be telling to see if he goes that route, or picks a firebrand who will cause a war in the Senate confirmation hearings.

The Senate voted 58-42 on Tuesday, January 31,2006 to confirm Alito as the 110th Justice of the Supreme Court. All but one of the 55 Senate Republicans voted to confirm Alito, as well as four Democrats: Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), and Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND).

It is all about finding 60 votes for cloture, then the DINOS can go back to 'voting their conscious'...