{"id":70535,"date":"2017-04-04T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70535"},"modified":"2017-04-04T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T23:01:00","slug":"report-mcconnell-says-gorsuch-will-be-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70535","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: McConnell Says Gorsuch Will Be Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY WILMOT PROVISO<a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/author\/chris-golden\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"before-article-meta\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Conservative Tribune<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a message for his Democrat colleagues in the upper house: Filibuster if you want, but Neil Gorsuch is going to be a Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/03\/28\/mcconnell-says-gorsuch-will-be-confirmed-in-the-coming-days\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a>, the Kentucky Republican told reporters on Tuesday that Gorsuch would be confirmed on April 7, come hell, high water, or Democrat hijinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to get Judge Gorsuch confirmed,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be an opportunity for the Democrats to invoke cloture. We\u2019ll see where that ends. The Democratic leader who will be out here shortly says that we will not get cloture, so that is a good question to ask him. But it\u2019ll be really up to them how the process to confirm Judge Gorsuch goes forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only has Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/key-dem-rogue-filibuster-schumers\/\" target=\"_blank\">lead a filibuster<\/a> against Gorsuch, but he\u2019s also implied that no Supreme Court nominee who cannot\u00a0win the\u00a060 votes needed to end a filibuster should be able to sit on the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this nominee cannot meet the same standard that Republicans insisted upon for President Obama\u2019s nominee, 60 votes in the Senate, then the problem lies not with the Senate but with the nominee,\u201d the New York Democrat\u00a0said <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/chuck-schumer-do-as-i-say-not-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the Senate floor<\/a> after\u00a0Gorsuch\u2019s nomination hearing had ended.<\/p>\n<p>However, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/446133\/chuck-schumer-says-gorsuch-needs-60-votes-hes-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">National Review<\/a> points out, six justices who have served on the court \u2014 including two currently on the bench \u2014 were confirmed with fewer than 60 votes in the Senate. Even the liberal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2017\/02\/02\/senate-democrats-misleading-language-on-a-60-vote-standard-for-supremer-court-nominees\/?utm_term=.6817a6842f2c\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> rated Schumer\u2019s statement \u201ctwo Pinocchios\u201d on its \u201clying\u201d scale.<\/p>\n<p>If McConnell and the Republicans have to do away with the filibuster \u00a0to get a vote on Neil Gorsuch \u2014 a supremely qualified individual whose nomination is\u00a0being obstructed only out of spite \u2014 Schumer and the Democrats have only their intransigence to blame.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s open prediction of Gorsuch\u2019s future had to infuriate Democrats still smarting over the November election loss that cost their party a chance to appoint the next Supreme Court justice. But their anger won\u2019t change reality:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/watch-video-anti-gorsuch-camp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gorsuch will<\/a> be the next man to take a seat on the Supreme Court, no matter how loudly Schumer and his Democrats want to whine about it.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/mcconnell-ruffles-feathers-gorsuch\/\">http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/mcconnell-ruffles-feathers-gorsuch\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}