On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that filibustering Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court is a “totally illogical” move Democrats are pursuing because they’re responding to the “Trump Derangement Syndrome”
During a statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) announced he would not support cloture for the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, giving the Democrats enough votes to sustain a filibuster
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) opposes Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, a decision that risks the ire of gun owners and other conservatives in deep-red Montana when Tester stands for reelection next year.
WASHINGTON—This week’s Senate showdown over the pending Supreme Court confirmation will go down in history because by next weekend America will either see the first ever successful partisan filibuster of a nominee or the Senate will reject using filibusters to block presidential nominations.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is mounting a filibuster effort to stop the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh dismissed the possibility of President Donald Trump working alongside Democrats as “fantasy.” Limbaugh said this fantasy would come to an end when Democrats filibuster the Supreme Court confirmation vote
WASHINGTON—As senators prepare to vote on the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday highlighted several key facts to the public to inform the nationwide discussion as the Senate increasingly appears headed to a historic outcome one way or the other.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times Reporter and MSNBC Contributor Jeremy Peters stated, “there’s a lot of frustration privately among Democratic Senators, who will tell you, it’s incredibly shortsighted of the Democrats” to try to filibuster Judge Neil
Several additional Democratic Senators answered Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) call to filibuster Trump Supereme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday, as those opposed to allowing Judge Gorsuch an open vote on the Senate floor try to assemble the forty-one votes needed to block cloture.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Joe Machin (D-WV) said that although he has yet to make a decision on whether or not he’ll vote to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, it was
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said last week that she supports a filibuster to stop the Supreme Court nomination of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch, claiming that he is “way outside the mainstream.”
On Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that if Democrats tried to filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, he would vote for the “constitutional option” to permanently end filibusters of nominees to the nation’s highest court.
On Thursday’s “Mike Gallagher Show,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vowed that he would do “Whatever it takes” to get Judge Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court and that if the Democrats filibuster Gorsuch, “we would have to change the rules
WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats will attempt to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced on Thursday during a speech on the Senate floor.
Albert Einstein said, “Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience [experiment].” Since this Republic was first gifted to the world, ours has been a quest to prove to mankind that the world’s great experiment in freedom, “a government of the people” can long endure. In any experiment, controlling for variables and clarity of result is vital.
The Democratic Connecticut senator who once law clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of the Roe v. Wade decision, told Breitbart News GOP senators will not change the rules to confirm Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
Jason Sattler, a USA Today contributor famous for his “LOLGOP” social media accounts, calls for “outrageous obstruction” to the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch, arguing: “A popular-vote loser chose him for a stolen Supreme Court seat. No more business as usual.”
Incoming Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says he regrets a 2013 decision by Senate Democrats, known as the “nuclear option” to decrease the number of senators needed to confirm Cabinet picks from 60 to 51 votes.
Looking ahead, there’s a rougher road for Democrats. Some 23 of the 33 Senate seats up in 2018 are held by incumbent Democrats. Two are held by incumbent Independents who caucus with the Democrats (Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Angus King of Maine), and only 8 are held by incumbent Republicans.
Senate Democrats from coal mining states shamed their Democratic colleagues in joining them in a procedural vote Thursday that would have ended debate on the continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through April over an extension of benefits for out-of-work coal workers.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) clarified his prior comments that he regretted changes to the filibuster rule made by Democrats by saying that he regretted that Republicans “overused” the filibuster, which led the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that he regretted Democratic rule changes regarding filibusters on nominees “because it would have been a terrific speed bump, potential emergency break, to have in our system
“I regret deeply that the Senate has not done its job and they have not permitted a vote on” Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, Hillary Clinton charged during Sunday’s debate in St. Louis against Donald Trump. Not holding a vote to ensure “the full compliment of nine Supreme Court justices” is a “dereliction of duty,” she said.
On June 15, Senate Democrats launched a filibuster for background checks on private gun sales less than a month after Omar Mateen passed a background check to buy his guns at a retail store.
As the Associated Press notes, the defense policy bill “is one of the few bipartisan measures in Congress that has readily become law for more than a half-century,” but President Obama is threatening to veto this one, with Senate Democrats standing behind him.
The Obama Administration’s Dodd-Frank Act, passed early in his first term to supposedly punish Wall Street, has had the adverse effect of actually making billions for Wall Street hedge funds by cutting in half the percentage of Americans that could
Senate Majority Leader appears to be taking last-ditch steps to stop the Iran deal, including an amendment that would prohibit President Barack Obama from lifting any sanctions until Ian lets four American captives go, and recognizes the State of Israel. However, McConnell’s ploy is just “kabuki” theater that will punish Democrats for supporting the Iran deal without stopping the deal itself.
Senate Democrats used a filibuster to prevent a vote on the Iran deal on Thursday. The move will also prevent President Barack Obama from having to use his veto power to block the motion of disapproval.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Republican Study Committee Chairman Bill Flores (R-TX), Sen Mike Lee (R-UT), House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other conservatives pushed back against calls to bring the export-import bank — whose charter expired at the end of June — back to life.
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz criticized Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s record on Obamacare while advocating against ending the filibuster to repeal the law on Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Cruz said, “I believe ending the legislative filibuster would
Republican Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) hinted the Senate would vote for a short-term extension on three of the U.S. spy programs within the Patriot Act Friday, Bloomberg Politics reports.
At the end of his filibuster that lasted nearly 12 hours, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got some last-minute support from one of his fellow GOP U.S. Senators running for president: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), an establishment Republican who positions himself as a defense hawk, attacked both Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) for standing up to National Security Agency (NSA) bulk collection of Americans’ data—as Paul is on the Senate floor leading a filibuster that’s lasted at least seven hours thus far.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, has taken control of the U.S. Senate floor to filibuster the PATRIOT Act over concerns that reauthorizing the national security bill would allow the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue the unlawful bulk collection of Americans’ personal records. Breitbart News will bring live updates as this process continues here.
On Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took to the Senate floor to protest NSA surveillance practices. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo
Sen. Rand Paul says he will filibuster controversial aspects of the Patriot Act when they come up for reauthorization in the weeks ahead.
A new Rasmussen survey indicates voters are in no hurry to see Lynch sworn in to replace Eric Holder as AG. “Just 33 percent of Likely U.S. Voters believe the Senate should confirm the federal prosecutor from Brooklyn, N.Y., to be the nation’s highest law enforcement officer,” the poll of 1,000 likely voters finds.
Routing Mr. Obama and his agenda, Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and made historic gains in the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead of respecting the election and listening to voters, Mr. Obama doubled down. He went from merely left wing to utter lawlessness.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called for Senate Republicans to abolish the filibuster on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC. Host Chuck Todd asked McCarthy, “one way that this could change is, since Republicans do have the majority, is
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) addressed an enthusiastic audience on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), laying out what sounded like a presidential campaign speech in all but name. Cruz challenged conservative activists to judge him and his potential 2016 competition by their actions, not just their words, and what they had actually done to fight for conservative causes.
