My God, what a nightmare of Dhimmi-crat totalitarian misery. Throw in a bit of Maryland along with the commuter counties of N Virginia and problem solved. But there is strong resistance from some Senate Democrats, because it would make the Senate operate the same way the majority-rule House does. WRT DC, the solution is simple but would be hard to do. We’d never get the Senate back again,” the Arizona Republican said.
The West Virginia Democrat told CNN that he would oppose his party’s effort to get rid of the filibuster, a stall tactic frequently used by the Senate’s minority party and that requires 60 votes in the chamber to overcome. Rezone all of it non-residential.
He sees this as a maneuver that could come back to haunt Democrats when they’re out of power. playing footsie with her Democrat Senate colleague.
I googled it 750k dead and our population was 1/10 of what it is today. Some on the left hope so. But that’s dead on arrival in a Republican-controlled Senate.
Mitch McConnell set the precedent. Eliminate Senate Filibuster 4 Mob Rule, Expand SCotUS With 6 Democrats, Expan… https://t.co/A5E7vYhHLQ, Democrats Plot To Eliminate Filibuster, Add Four New Senate Seats, Pass 'Progressive Agenda' https://t.co/JwYjezhX4P. But chatter about these changes was already happening among Democrats well before last week.
“When you get rid of the Senate filibuster, the Senate becomes the House, so anything that passed the Democrat House could pass a Democrat majority Senate.” Removing the filibuster … It’s hard to believe that half the country falls for this crap. The territory of Puerto Rico is one option, but what really has Democratic support is making D.C. a state. PR has voted against statehood many times. In an interview, Reid predicted that Democrats will sweep the presidency, Senate and House, and urged them to kick off the new era by scrapping the 60-vote rule. Might Biden be more inclined to then to consider this? Some even threatened to expand the nine-member high court if Democrats win control of the Senate and White House. Kleptocratic goodies for the worst, most radical and worthless elements of the Dhimmi-crat Party, and, their attendant, self-styled “victim” groups — contrived victimhood racial tribalists (e.g, “La Raza;” “Black Lives Matter;)” union parasites; illegal aliens; neo-communist prosperity saboteurs; “Green” energy hustlers; et al. Get rid of the filibuster . “It will be changed forever.
How likely is it?
“They’re going to make D.C. and Puerto Rico a state and get four new Democrat Senators.
blocking former President Barack Obama’s nominee, Abortion Rights Groups Prepare To ‘Fight Like Hell’ In Wake Of RBG's Death, Mitch McConnell Promises Trump’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Replacement Will Get A Vote, Donald Trump Calls Ruth Bader Ginsburg 'A Titan Of The Law'. The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning. Since then, Democrats again found themselves in the minority and expressed regret over Reid’s 2013 decision. Democrats consider filibuster rule change in 2021 if they take Senate, White House If they win back the Senate next year, a rule change could help their agenda. Pharma makes pills in China; software is not pressed on CDs anymore. Current events suck enough already without adding extremely unlikely events to the talking points. , Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. Democrats and progressive activists vowed to eliminate the filibuster and possibly even expand the Supreme Court if Republicans fill the seat of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday from complications of cancer. The Constitution says nothing about how many justices there must be on the Supreme Court, and over time, it has fluctuated between six and 10.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, a longtime defender of the rule, said in July that “you have to just take a look at it” and it would “depend on how obstreperous they become,” referring to Senate Republicans. This would require a majority of Congress to approve and a president to sign off on it.
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Statehood for DC and PR have been open goals of the d for years.
“Let me be clear that the voters should pick the president, and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider,” Biden added. The less laws that Congress makes, the better and more free we all are. “So I think that should be the first item of business with a Senate majority which is Democratic — to get rid of the filibuster.”, Biden describes his “progressive agenda” as “a bold, transformative platform for our party and for our country.”. This movement is 74 electoral votes short of being able to being able to command how the 270 electoral votes needed to win get allotted, so that they go to the winner of the popular vote. Had there been a vacancy on the Supreme Court, Reid would certainly have used what has come to be known as the “Reid Rule” to fill it under Obama’s watch. Like: What it is: It’s adding more judges to a court than there are now, including the Supreme Court. Trump should have had the feds out there unapologetically shooting looters and insurrectionists, which would have been the right thing to do.
“That’s bullshit,” Manchin said this week when asked about the Democratic push to eliminate the filibuster. In exchange, the West coast State of Jefferson along with maybe inland empire CA become another State. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events, Powerful voices in the Democratic Party continue to sound open to it. Democrats Warn GOP: Fill Ginsburg's Supreme Court Seat And We'll Nix The Filibuster. And if Democrats take control of the Senate but keep the filibuster intact, it would probably still struggle to pass, since the new D.C. and/or Puerto Rican senators would probably be reliable Democratic votes. What they do have is a strong chance of regaining the majority in November, and they are threatening consequences then for what they see as Republican hypocrisy on taking up a nomination in an election year. Benjamin Siegel.
“I believe that it is hard to defend the current system in which one candidate receives 3 million votes less than his opponent but still becomes president,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said. McSally warned that if Democrats win full control of Washington, they will vote to give Puerto Rico and D.C. full voting rights on Capitol Hill via statehood, making it impossible for Republicans to ever regain control. But what happens if Democrats gain control and start passing legislation that Republicans challenge in court, which a conservative-leaning Supreme Court knocks down? I was stationed in PR in 1980-1981.
Why Democrats are talking about changing it now: It has been a tool for Democrats in recent months to stop what they saw as a bad Republican police overhaul bill and an “emaciated” coronavirus relief package. Democratic insiders are assembling a coalition behind the scenes to wage an all-out war on the Senate filibuster in bullish anticipation of sweeping the 2020 election and passing an ambitious progressive agenda. Back in 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) eliminated the Senate filibuster on all executive nominees and on all judicial appointments below the Supreme Court. Presumably, the Green New Deal—repackaged as Biden’s “Build Back Better,” blanket amnesty, socialized medicine, gun confiscation/enforced “buy backs,” crippling and job-destroying climate policies, and a host of other horrifying—and routinely rejected by the American people—items that will destroy our great country and every American’s liberty. Democrats have legislation they agreed was important to pass, over Republicans’ objections, that they think it’s worth eliminating the filibuster for. Changing the Constitution is one of the hardest thing to do in U.S. politics.
(Obama. DC statehood is never happening and I’d be really surprised if Puerto Rico got any traction either. Washington Post columnist Charles Lane argued this week that modern life expectancy is too long to justify lifetime court appointments.
There’s a movement afoot to go around the Constitution by having states agree to give their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote — regardless of who won the vote in that state. The party would need 50 votes in the Senate to get rid of the filibuster. Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost? Congress could expand the Senate by adding states, which would add two new senators per state.
But Democrats fear that if they win the Senate majority in November, the tables will be turned, and Senate Republicans will have power to stop their legislation. Eliminate Senate Filibuster 4 Mob Rule, Expand SCotUS With 6 Democrats, Expand Senate…, #SenileOldJoeBiden Democrat Platform?
This summer, the House of Representatives voted to make D.C. a state for the first time in history.
Some, however, threatened to eliminate the filibuster and possibly even pack the high court if the Democratic Party takes control of the White House and Senate next year. It would require a significant amount of buy-in from the very Republican senators trying to confirm Trump’s third nominee now. Part of HuffPost Politics. After this round of having to support them, let’s all try to get real conservatives in. I very much doubt that the d would accept this. Here are the overhauls that are being talked about by some in the Democratic Party, in the order of likelihood they could happen. I wrote this summer about several things that could happen to give this idea traction next year if Democrats are in power. Not once has Pertinent RICO voted to become a state in any of the plebiscites it has put on the ballot.
There were nearly a dozen proposals floated to this end, recently compared the century-old filibuster to. In fact, they want the opposite—no responsibilities for statehood but American taxpayers baili8ng them out.
How likely is it? Progressive activist Ady Barkan, an advocate for single-payer health care who is influential among Democrats, also called for changing the makeup of the Supreme Court.
Filibuster. This would take a constitutional amendment, and it would change the very system the Founders set up to elect presidents. “If President Biden wants to get things done, he can’t play around with the filibuster,” Reid told NBC News, arguing that Americans will no longer accept a supermajority Senate threshold for action.
Add Sen. Thom Tillis, NC and perhaps Sen. Lindsey Graham.
As Professor Jacobson pointed out, the only reason he didn’t include SCOTUS was that there was no pressing reason to do so at the time. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said the Senate would “never, ever be the same” if Republicans fill Ginsburg’s seat this year, alluding to major changes. Democrats, led by Reid and Sen. Jeff Merkley, have been pushing back into debate the question of amending the Senate rules through a majority vote in order to stop the ability of the minority party to block nominees through a filibuster. Biden opposed this during the primaries, but at least five Democratic senators who were running for president were open to it, according to a Washington Post analysis.
However, maybe a trade could be made for D.C. D.C. expands back to it’s original boarders which includes part of N Virginia. Sen. McSally: “They are going to ram through the most radical left agenda we’ve seen in history”. i grew up just a few miles from where the shooting in Compton took place. But it would probably require a constitutional amendment to change this, since the Constitution says Supreme Court justices are appointed for life. “We must use the power that voters give us to deliver the change we are promising.”.
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