GOP TO CHANGE SENATE RULES TO STOP DEMOCRAT’S
DELAYING TACTICS, by Steven Ahle, 3/14/19.
The Democrats have filibustered just
about every Trump nominee. That is because the rules allow unlimited debate.
The Republicans are about to change the rules, likely in April. The rule change
will limit debate.
The rule has remained the same as
neither party ever used the rule to prevent nominees from getting a vote. No
time limit has been announced and different members of the Senate are throwing
out different numbers.
The filibuster was passed in the 1800s
and President Trump has had more judges filibustered than all the presidents in
the last 120 years………..COMBINED.
From Breitbart News: Article II of the
Constitution specifies that all federal judges require Senate confirmation, as
do senior positions in the administration. Currently, 1,200 positions out of
4,100 political appointments in a presidential administration are “principal
officers” that are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Theoretically,
the Senate could use its confirmation power to keep seats on the federal
judiciary – including even the Supreme Court – open indefinitely. Senators
could also employ it to hamstring a presidential administration by denying a
vote to presidential nominees for key positions in the government.
In fact,
that is what Senate Democrats are doing now. Judges are being slow-walked, with
more cloture votes being required in two years for President Trump’s picks than
all the judicial nominations of every previous president combined since the
filibuster was created in the late 1800s. Similarly, hundreds of the 1,200
Senate-confirmed positions in the Trump administration are still vacant.
After two
years of debating what to do about this unprecedented obstruction, Senate
Republicans now appear to have the votes to reinterpret Senate rules to rein in
this practice. It takes a two-thirds supermajority vote in the Senate (67) to
change the chamber’s rules, but it only takes a simple majority (51) to
reinterpret existing rules.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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