The Senate Nuclear Option and Immigration

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The Senate Nuclear Option and Immigration

By Dan Cadman on March 29, 2019

The Washington Times reports that the GOP majority has had more than a enough of obstruction by Democrats impeding the constitutional advice-and-consent requirement for Senate approval of Trump administration appointees. As a result, they are going to use the so-called "nuclear option" to change Senate rules governing filibuster and cloture, which have the practical effect of requiring a 60-vote majority to get anything done.

It's about time. They had already discovered the need to exercise this nuclear option to change the rules governing Supreme Court appointments. If they hadn't, you can bet all the money in your pocket — and probably in your bank account and your inheritance too — that neither Neil Gorsuch nor Brett Kavanaugh would be sitting on the bench right now.

https://cis.org/Cadman/Senate-Nuclear-Option-and-Immigration

[Fishrrman]

If true this is GREAT and IMPORTANT news (which will be ignored by most here).

You realize the FIRST THING the democrat-communists would do when they regained power in the Senate would be to nuke the filibuster.

So... jump the gun and do it NOW.

My opinion only of course, but the filibuster rule has grated against the spirit of the Constitution (which narrowly specifies those instances in government in which a supermajority will be required) since its inception.

Time to get rid of it.