The Senate has confirmed Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, bringing a contentious 14-month partisan battle to a close after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
The vote was 54-45 on Friday. The victory gives President Donald Trump’s 49-year-old nominee a lifetime spot on the court and his party a much-needed political win after failing to pass legislation on health care and other issues.
The final confirmation vote came after Senate Republicans rewrote the chamber’s rules, voting to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold on Supreme Court nominees. The change allowed the Senate to proceed to the final vote with a simple majority.
Democrats opposed Gorsuch in part because Senate Republicans blocked former President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, last year.
(AP)
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MAZAL TOV, a real non-toeiva loving American, now we need Ginsburg and the other 2 Yidden off.
#1 interesting that he was nominated by a degenerate adulterer
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Your friend Clinton has not been president for quite some time already, he was also not president when Judge Gorsuch was nominated for his first federal Judgeship. I don’t know why you keep mentioning Clinton.
Re comment no. 1: Do you object to Yidden on the court, or liberals on the court? And how do the YWN moderators know that your objection is not anti-Semitic. Are you, perhaps, one of those self-hating Jews I hear so much about?
#2 – I don’t think we recognize goyim’s marriages, and the reality among the American goyim is that such behvior as you complain about is readily accepted (when President Clinton was “caught with his pants down” the only objection was that he lied about, not to what he was doing). IN ADDITION, frum Jews have always judged non-Jewish leaders based on their actions towards us, not their personal lives. The fact that a king/politician/statesman was a pervert regardless of “flavor” was not out concern, only whether he was friendly to the Yidden (and clearly Trump is, and much of Obama’s policies were clearly hostile to us).