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Mar 1, 2024 · McConnell alone did not create the “60-vote Senate” — the expectation that a Senate majority must always secure supermajority support to advance its policy agenda. But as Senate...
Oct 1, 2020 · Democrats led by Sen. Harry Reid ended the filibuster for non-SCOTUS nominees, but the GOP under Sen. Mitch McConnell eliminated it for SCOTUS picks.
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- Eliminating The Filibuster For Presidential Nominees
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- Fact Checking The "Biden Rule"
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In 2013, Senate Democrats — then in the majority — triggered the nuclear option for the first time. Frustrated with what they considered the relentless Republican obstruction of Obama's appointments, Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, changed the rules so that lower court and Cabinet nominees could be confirmed with a sim...
In February 2016, days after the conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, Republicans made an unprecedented declaration: The Senate would not hear or confirm any nominee to fill the unexpected vacancy until the country had elected a new president in November. Don't even try nominating anyone, McConnell told Obama, the Constitution re...
To justify the decision to break from Supreme Court nomination precedent, Republicans pointed to a similar appeal made by none other than Obama's own vice president, Joe Biden, decades earlier. "It is my view that if a Supreme Court justice resigns tomorrow or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer, President [George H.W...
The impending retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy has Democrats singing McConnell's old tune. "Our Republican colleagues in the Senate should follow the rule they set in 2016 — not to consider a Supreme Court justice in an election year," Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Wednesday afternoon. But with just 51 Republicans in the ...
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Jan 23, 2022 · The 60-vote threshold to overcome the filibuster and pass legislation in the Senate seems as immovable as ever. But that threshold is relatively new. It was established after an epic fight...
In January 2021, following a shift to a 50–50 Democratic majority supported by Vice President Harris' tie-breaking vote, the legislative filibuster became a sticking point for the adoption of a new organizing resolution when Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, threatened to filibuster the resolution unless it included language ...
Dec 7, 2021 · Senator McConnell turned the filibuster rules from a process for protecting the rights of the Senate minority into a political weapon used repeatedly for partisan, not policy, reasons during the Obama and Biden presidencies.
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Feb 29, 2024 · The filibuster allows a minority of senators to veto virtually any legislation, unless the majority can convince 60 of the Senate’s 100 members to break that filibuster.
