Anonymous ID: f9a73a Nov. 13, 2018, 10:45 p.m. No.3896339   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6345 >>6379 >>6871

Bill Clinton, USSC nominee Merrick Garland, 53-47, and Trump

 

Clinton's first priority was winning confirmation of Judge Merrick Garland to the late Antonin Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court. As it gradually became clear that it would be impossible to peel away the nine Republican votes necessary to invoke cloture, Clinton and Majority Leader Schumer elected to nuke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. There was a massive outcry from conservatives, especially Donald Trump, who referred to the action as "the first step towards a fachist dictatorship! [sic]" Garland was ultimately confirmed 53-47 after months of ugly vote-wrangling. McConnell and Ryan railed against "the great court robbery," and would continue to do so until years after President Clinton left office.

 

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