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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dems controlled the Senate for a while last time too. They were too afraid to use a simple majority to pass through any of their nominations though. 60 votes were required to add someone to the supreme Court, dems had a simple majority and were unwilling to lower because "then the Republicans would use it."

Lot of good that did

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They actually did remove the filibuster for lower court nominations. Which gave the Republicans easy justification to remove it for Kavanaugh a few years later.

So they essentially handed the Republicans that power without ever using it themselves. Strategic geniuses.

But now that it's gone, they are shooting themselves in the foot - again - by not having Sotomayor (and Kagan really) retire.