Democrats Delay Gorsuch Supreme Court Panel Vote For One Week

While Democrats debate whether or not to filibuster the Neil Gorsuch nomination for Supreme Court, moments ago they delayed for one week an initial committee vote on Gorsuch. As The Hill first reported, Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the committee, said Democrats had requested that the committee"s vote on Gorsuch be punted to next week.

"I understand that the minority would like to hold [him] over," Grassley said during the Judiciary Committee"s meeting on Monday. Under committee rules any one member can request that a nomination be held the first time it appears on the agenda. 

Today"s move is not a surprise: Democrats were widely expected to delay the committee"s vote until next week. The delay means the committee vote will likely take place on April 3, giving Republicans days to meet their goal of winning Gorsuch"s confirmation by the full Senate by the end of that week. The Senate will then go into a recess.

Democrats are demanding a 60-vote threshold for Gorsuch"s approval, but it is unclear whether the party has enough votes to support a filibuster against Trump"s nominee.

Meanwhile, Republicans have suggested they will change the Senate"s rules allowing a filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if Democrats block Gorsuch.  The committee held a four-day hearing on Gorsuch"s nomination last week, with Trump"s nominee appearing before the committee for three days. 

Democrats also delayed Rod Rosenstein, nominated to be deputy attorney general, by a week.

Artist's Impression Of Judge Gorsuch's Nomination Hearings

He looks like he was interpreting the law as it was written not how he feels. Of course, we all feel that an autistic child get all the opportunities possible but the law stated that the school district had to provide just anything above the absolute minimum. If the district was providing anything above the minimum, the district was well within the law and the three judges were right. But then there are the vitue signaling , holier than thou crowd who is SOOOOOO enlightened and who is annointed to spend others peoples money and who write the laws from the bench, of course that crowd would overturn a judgement that is perfectly in line with the law as written.