The Fight for the Supreme Court C10-1

This week, President Trump stated that his decision on his nominee for the Supreme Court Justice would be reached. All of the Senate has been eager to hear what his choice will be, and a lot of Democrats are ready to fight against this decision. All of the democratic Senators are very angry the Republicans denied this open seat to be filled by President Obama. They were able to do this by refusing to take any case ruling for a new judge, and since they have the majority, they were able to succeed. The Democrats, being the minority, plan to filibuster for as long as possible, which could drive the Republicans to have a majority vote to change the rules. So basically, the Republicans are going to get their conservative Supreme Court Judge no matter what. This will give the Court a 5-4 advantage of conservative ruling judges instead of the year long 4-4 deadlocks that have occurred for almost a year now.


Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/supreme-court-nominees-trump.html?_r=0