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Trump's short list Supreme Court Justice this year

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01-11-2019, 10:03 PM

(01-11-2019, 09:06 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:
(01-09-2019, 11:11 PM)mikesez Wrote: The constitution does not specify a threshold for confirming judges.  Where it is silent, each house of Congress is free to make its own rules.  The rules used to say 60 votes.  Now they say 51.  They'll never say less than 50% + 1 just due to the logic of it.

The Constitution says advice and consent. You are right that there is no threshold specified. While traditionally the Senate has voted on the judges, that's not specified either, so in theory the Majority leader could singlehandedly be the one making the decision.

We'd find out pretty quickly what the current justices think of their new coworker.
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