Dear Democrats, pack the court and nuke the filibuster. I dare you

That's not what I meant. Trump was President. Republicans held the Senate and the House. But they did not expand and pack the court. They filled the vacancies as they came.

 

nope, they did what I said they did to pack the court, dems will add seats to do the same thing

 

Nope, Reps waited for openings.

 

they banned Obama from getting his last supreme court nomination and they stole Biden's first.

if the GOP wants to play like that, all bets are off.

pack the court!!!!

 

they changed the votes to 50 and they denied Obama during an election year, but allowed Trump

dems will do the same, they will add seats and fill them with 50 votes, all within the rules

 

Dems should add two Liberal judges to the court.

GOP can then fill them with Conservatives when they retire or die in 40 years.

 

So we govern as children now?

 

Dear Democrats, pack the court and nuke the filibuster. I dare you
Republicans have been packing the courts for several decades. The way they treated Obama's last nominee, then went against their own reasoning to confirm the recent Trump nominee--completely self-serving, dishonest, insincerity--shows their lack of commitment toward functioning together in the governance of our country. With this attitude, America loses.

 

You changing the definition of words now?

You know damn well the Republicans just filled seats when available. You shouldn't of nominated Obama and Hillary Clinton

 

Tell us how?.

A right leaning court gave us

Abortion
Gay marriage
The dreamers
Obama care

 

rules are rules, if Republicans want to play dirty to win the SC, dems will too

 

Democrats have to fight fire with fire.

the GOP-run Senate has lost all integrity.

we have no choice but to add two more Liberal judges.

 

Uhm the Reid already played dirty

 

Lol so your mad that the Republicans played by the Democrats rules?

 

Democrats have NEVER denied a Republican President the ability to nominate a supreme court justice in their last year.

 

Published May 19, 2005
WASHINGTON – It was a Senate filibuster that did justice to all the celluloid versions and spirited talkathons of bygone years. New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (search) chattered, crooned "South of the Border," answered questions from a visiting colleague around 3 a.m., recited names and controlled all Senate business for 15 hours, 14 minutes.


The issue was parochial for the Republican just weeks before a tough re-election contest in a Democratic-leaning state - the fate of a small typewriter company in Cortland, N.Y.

The year was 1992.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/last-true-filibuster-13-years-ago


No worries, neither party filibusters anyway. So, get rid of it.

 

Nothing requires 60 votes to pass.
60 votes are needed to end a filibuster. 1992 was the last filibuster?

 

Prior to this year, when was the last time that particular scenario arose?

 

in 1988, the Democrat-controlled Senate approved Reagan's nominee.

 

It wasn't bork

 

No, just a Rapist.

 

Whhhaaaa....

 

Not providing advice and consent to Obama. They had every right to vote no but they had to VOTE. By rights their abstention should have resulted in the position being filled by default, as it's by presidential appointment and the vote is simply the traditional way of providing advice and consent. If congress just shrugs it's shoulders at an appointment, the appointment should just go thru by a strict reading of the Constitution. That didn't happen, the Repubs violated their Constitutional duty (until it was to their benefit, then their 'rules' went out the window) and are now whining that Biden is promising to punish them for it.

 

And yet there is no constitutional limit on the size of SCOTUS

 

Abuse by Republicans? Of course you limit this to the past 15 years. Why is that I wonder? Is it possibly because Democrats hold the record for the longest filibuster in US history? When they opposed the Civil Rights Act. Lasted 60 days.

As for your claim that the filibuster was never intended as a means to simply kill legislation....that is actually its very purpose. Politicians from both sides of the aisle have used it. Know how many used their filibuster time? They did anything from reading the names in a phone book to reciting cooking recipes to reading Shakespeare and even Green Eggs & Ham from Dr. Seuss. And its been going on for well over a century. In fact it started in 1806 and the first successful filibuster was in 1837 when a group of Whig senators who opposed President Andrew Jackson filibustered to prevent Jackson’s allies from expunging a resolution of censure against him.