Key Dem McCaskill to Oppose Gorsuch, Back Filibuster

[red dog 1]

The Hill
March 31, 2017

Sen. Claire McCaskill on Friday said she will vote to support a filibuster of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

The announcement makes it significantly harder for Gorsuch to muster the 60 votes he needs to overcome a filibuster and advance to a final confirmation vote.

McCaskill is the first Democrat facing reelection next year in a state Trump carried by double digits to come out against Gorsuch.

She announced her opposition in a statement posted to "Medium," faulting the nominee for
"a stunning lack of humanity."

"I cannot support Judge Gorsuch because a study of his opinions reveal a rigid ideology that always puts the little guy under the boot of corporations," she wrote.

McCaskill cited the judge's opinion in Transam Trucking v. Administrative Review Board, which sided with an employer who ordered a trucker to stay with a disabled vehicle in sub-zero weather.

More:
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/326775-key-dem-mccaskill-to-oppose-gorsuch-back-filibuster

[nycbos]

1. Love it.

She has a tough reelection coming up.


Lets hope she isn't making a "courageous decision" to quote Sir Humphrey Appleby

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. I was wrong. Good. nt

[caroldansen]

3. I read something this morning that if the dems.do filibuster the republicans will go nuclear and if

they do the republicans said it will cause the Senate to be like the house which is every 6 years. Can they do that? If that's the case we can't have a filibuster. He is going to get in anyway because of the republican majority. If it's true we can't risk that and shouldn't.

[The Polack MSgt]

4. She has to run a state wide campaign

In Outer Trumpolia, but I figure that fighting 45 - even in MO could be a winning strategy.

I saw her at the STL Women's March. She had to be impressed by the turnout - and Gorsuch is an asshole as well. All of that means she can do what I believe she preferred to do anyway.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. I understand the sentiment against, but

what good is allowing a filibuster if everyone's afraid to use it anyway?

[red dog 1]

6. + 1

[ProudLib72]

7. Right?

Let them go nuclear. Then hang that around their neck down the road.

[femmocrat]

8. Whew! That's a relief.

I hope all the rest of the democrats stick together. Losing two (Manchin and Heitkamp) is disappointing, but the numbers are still OK.

[red dog 1]

9. Both Manchin & Heitkamp lack the courage it would take to oppose ANY Trump SCOTUS nominee

They're both DINOs who should just change parties & become Republicans, imo.