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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
This is better called the Reid Option since he started it back in 2003. He didn't want to let Bush have those judges so he invented the idea of the filibuster. They didn't do it but the idea was hatched. A decade later Reid then changed Senate rules to allow lower judges to get by on a majority vote except for the Supremes.
So this is the Reid Option and for the first time in history a Supreme Court nominee is being filibustered. The democrats are the ones changing the rules. McConnell is just putting things back to 2003 and the way they were for over 200 years.
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actually, the filibuster rule was not an original rule at the time of the founding. It first appeared in use during the jackson administration during the 1820s. so, it was a democrat idea.
All McConnel did was restore the 1970 filibuster rule that was in effect prior to 2003.
Democrats started this, first in 1830 with the filibuster rule.
Prior to 1970 rule, filibuster was rarely used.
They changed the rule in 1970 to make the filibuster easier to use, this backfired on them as it created more filibuster oportunites instead of less.
In the 1980's, democrats toxicity level increased when they borked Robert Bork from the Supreme Court nomination.
They did it again in 2003 when they changed the filibuster rule on judges only to have it backfire on them when the Republicans used their rule against them in 2013 against Obama's judges.
Democrats seem to have a problem staying within the rules, its rules for everyone else, but exempt themselves from those same rules. All good for thee, but not for thou.
I'm very much in favor of ripping the filibuster root & branch from the senate. the house got rid of theirs along time ago.
