Democrats Have Forgotten About Establishing A Floor

Even as the high court s ideological balance is.

Democrats have forgotten about establishing a floor.

Democrats were outraged of course but were short of tools with which to respond. That was also unprecedented. If democrats manage to hold the house of representatives and win back the senate and the white house in november the party will have full control of the federal government for the first time in. That s the number of votes needed in the senate to.

Senate democrats blocked the gop s attempt to advance a skinny 500 billion coronavirus. That fact means democrats have at least some power they could use. Bush s first term senate democrats pioneered the use of the filibuster to block nominees to the circuit courts. While democrats power to stop a trump nominee is certainly limited there s one way to know they have at least some power to obstruct.

Instead of opening a formal impeachment inquiry in ukrainegate democrats should have calmed down taken a deep breath and counted to 67. Vis à vis the filibuster the journal wrote it s mostly forgotten now but in george w. Democrats in congress have done little more than pay lip service to bipartisanship in the week since the passing of justice ruth bader ginsburg. Miguel estrada was left hanging for 28 months before he withdrew though he had support from 55 senators.

If the roles were reversed and mcconnell were in the minority we all know he would find a way to grind the process to a halt. Senate democrats on tuesday introduced legislation that would establish a task force to investigate claims that the trump administration politicized health agencies response to the coronavirus.