Gorsuch will be approved tomorrow in the Senate!

Senate Republicans are invoking the nuclear option (or Reid option) to ensure Neil Gorsuch's nomination to be the next Supreme Court justice. He needs just 51 votes, which he will get tomorrow.

The nuclear option? No, it is the Reed option!

Tit for tat! Harry Reid set the new rules, and we're gonna follow them!

GOP Pelosiism: We have to pass the bill in order to find out what's in it!

Schumer to vote against Gorsuch, and urges all Democrats to do the same

Alexander Bolton reports at The Hill,

Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) says he will oppose Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and urge fellow Democrats to do the same.

Schumer announced Thursday that Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch and force Republicans to muster 60 votes to advance him to a final up-or-down vote.

“He will have to earn 60 votes for confirmation. My vote will be no, and I urge my colleagues to do the same,” he said on the Senate floor.


Republicans have threatened to change the Senate’s filibuster rule to exempt Supreme Court nominees from procedural gridlock — a controversial tactic often referred to as the "nuclear option" that Democrats deployed in 2013 to protect Cabinet and lower-court judges from filibusters.

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