{"id":119124,"date":"2017-04-06T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119124"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:15:57","slug":"mcconnell-changes-senate-rules-ensures-gorsuch-nom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119124","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nuclear option&#8221; invoked in Gorsuch confirmation vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118822\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gorsuch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"163\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has moved to change the rules of the Senate to confirm Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the motion would remove a 60-vote filibuster requirement for Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch and all future high court nominees.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is expected to vote soon on the motion, which is dubbed &#8220;the nuclear option&#8221; because it could change the Senate and the court for generations.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell raised a point of order to change the rules &#8220;under the precedent set on Nov. 21, 2013,&#8221; when then-majority Senate Democrats made the same move for lower court and executive branch nominations.<\/p>\n<p>The chamber is now voting on motions called by Democrats as a delaying tactic.<\/p>\n<p>After the rules change, Gorsuch is expected to be confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has moved to change the rules of the Senate to confirm Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for the Supreme Court. If successful, the motion would remove a 60-vote filibuster requirement for Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch and all future high court nominees. The Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119124"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119159,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119124\/revisions\/119159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}