Harry Reid and Joe Biden's own rules can be used

Posted: Feb 2, 2017

"For cabinet nominees you need 60 and for judicial nominees you need 60, until Harry Reid came along in 2013 and blew up the-60-vote rule, and this is called “the nuclear option,” and Harry Reid decreed — because he ran the Senate, Senate majority leader. He ran it. He was able to ramrod rules changes through. So beginning in 2013, 60 votes were no longer need to affirm presidential appointments, nominations, or judges for every court except the Supreme Court. All you needed was 51 votes. This was so Obama could pack the federal judiciary, because the Democrats, what they can’t win at the ballot box, they enshrine in law in the judiciary. They place activist judges on courts all over the country who write law, who create law, not interpret it. I’ll give you a great, great example. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts took Obamacare — the mandate clause, the clause that mandated people buy insurance, which is unconstitutional. The chief justice decided he didn’t want to be the guy that declared unconstitutional something so important to a president, particularly the first black president. So he rewrote parts of Obamacare in his opinion, which turned the mandate into a tax, which then gave the federal government the right to do it! That’s why everybody was so outraged by it. “Because once you do this, you’re now opening the door for the Republicans to do the same thing when they end up back in charge here.” And Harry Reid said, “I’m not gonna be here when that happens ’cause I’m gonna retire. So screw it.” He wanted Obama to be able to pack the courts, and this is how he did it. So, in order to get any judicial nominee passed, 51 votes is all that was required in the Senate, not 60, beginning in 2013. Well, now here we come with the nomination of Judge Gorsuch. Sixty votes are still needed because he is a Supreme Court nominee, and Harry Reid didn’t change that. But since Harry Reid changed it for everything else, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, can easily say, “You know what? I’m just gonna apply the nuclear option to Supreme Court nominees.” And the Democrats can caterwaul and whine and moan all they want. But there’s nothing they can do to stop that. Therefore, there’s nothing they can do to stop Gorsuch being confirmed. He’s going to be confirmed because there’s no way they can really stop him." As far as Joe Biden, in 1992 he said in the last year of a sitting president (like Obama in 2016), he/she should not be able to appoint a Supreme Court justice (like Merrick Garland). When Republicans play by Democrat rules, they press is all over it. Rush Limbaugh;