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kentuck

(110,950 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 08:16 AM Aug 2019

How Mitch McConnell corrupted the United States Senate?

Mitch McConnell has stated that one of his proudest achievements is putting a huge number of judges on the court.

When the Obama Administration attempted to fill vacant judgeships, Mitch McConnell blocked them in the US Senate. He blocked almost everything.

The Democratic Senate, under the leadership of Harry Reid, made the decision to change the appointment of judges, below the Supreme Court level, with a simple majority.

McConnell warned them that they would regret that decision. Some Democrats thought he had already made up his mind to change the filibuster rule to a simple majority? That was why he was blocking all the judges that were nominated by Harry Reid and the Democrats. He even blocked the vote on a Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland.

Then, when Trump and his regime took control of the government after the election of November 2016, McConnell was ready to rock and roll. The Republican Senate passed a record number of votes for new judges. Some of them were immensely unqualified. They even sent thru two new Supreme Court Justices, by a simple majority.

Now, Mitch McConnell is warning the Democrats that they should return to the old filibuster rule, with a requirement of 60 votes to continue debate.

Some say, life is a gamble. The Democrats might just gamble and keep the rules just as they are, as created by Mitch McConnell, the architect of the corruption now seen in the US Senate.

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How Mitch McConnell corrupted the United States Senate? (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2019 OP
I don't want to elect any candidate who wants to keep things just as they are bc it's in2herbs Aug 2019 #1
Ironically, the only way they can change the US Senate is keeping it as it is.... kentuck Aug 2019 #2

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
2. Ironically, the only way they can change the US Senate is keeping it as it is....
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 08:36 AM
Aug 2019

....so they can eventually change it back to what it was.

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