Democrats Have Forgotten About Establishing A Floor

Senate democrats blocked the gop s attempt to advance a skinny 500 billion coronavirus.

Democrats have forgotten about establishing a floor.

Even as the high court s ideological balance is. That fact means democrats have at least some power they could use. That was also unprecedented. Instead of opening a formal impeachment inquiry in ukrainegate democrats should have calmed down taken a deep breath and counted to 67.

That s the number of votes needed in the senate to. Now however those same democrats are so desperate to keep president trump from nominating a replacement for the late justice ginsburg that they seem to have forgotten all of the constitutional. 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. 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.

Bush s first term senate democrats pioneered the use of the filibuster to block nominees to the circuit courts. Democrats were outraged of course but were short of tools with which to respond. As the minority party following a disastrous midterm in 2014 they could not force a committee or a floor. Miguel estrada was left hanging for 28 months before he withdrew though he had support from 55 senators.

More than 6 5 million americans have been infected with the virus and more than 194 000 have died. Democrats in congress have done little more than pay lip service to bipartisanship in the week since the passing of justice ruth bader ginsburg.