Tag: Neil Gorsuch

The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination on Monday, and the full Senate is expected to vote on the nomination on Friday, April 7. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Conservative groups from red states with Democratic senators urge Gorsuch’s confirmation

Ryan Lovelace · March 30, 2017 2:02 pm

As Casey Stengel, while managing the New York Mets on their way to a 40-120 season in 1962, reportedly asked, "Can't anybody here play this game?" (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

Doesn’t anybody know how to play this game?

Michael Barone · March 30, 2017 4:42 am

The result would be that Gorsuch would require 50 votes instead of 60. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republican support for ‘nuclear option’ for Gorsuch builds in Senate

Susan Crabtree · March 29, 2017 10:21 pm

The protests took place less than a week before the Senate is expected to start moving on the nomination. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Activists disrupt GOP rally for Neil Gorsuch

Ryan Lovelace · March 29, 2017 6:36 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a filibuster against Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court arguing that Gorsuch should reach a 60-vote threshold. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer in 2013 said Dems believe in ‘up-or-down’ votes, not ‘obstruction’

Susan Crabtree · March 29, 2017 5:18 pm

Since Schumer announced he would lead a filibuster of Gorsuch last week, a number of key Democratic senators up for re-election in 2018 have either said they are undecided or have declined to make their positions public. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Few Democrats seem willing to buck Schumer on Gorsuch filibuster vow

Susan Crabtree · March 29, 2017 4:16 pm

Judge Amul Thapar could be the front-runner for a second Supreme Court vacancy, were one to open. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s other judicial nomination

David Freddoso · March 29, 2017 3:52 pm

On the campaign trail last October, Kaine threatened to nuke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations if Republicans wouldn't cooperate on President Hillary Clinton's nominees. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

American stepdad Tim Kaine breaks his word on filibustering Supreme Court nominees

Philip Wegmann · March 29, 2017 3:41 pm

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said that President Trump's massive cuts to the EPA will keep the country's environmental cop from "brainwashing" the country's children. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Jim Inhofe: Democrats will rue the day they deployed ‘nuclear option’

Kyle Feldscher · March 29, 2017 1:45 pm

A popular refrain among critics of Judge Neil Gorsuch is that he doesn't stand for the little guy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

When Neil Gorsuch stood up for the little guy

Becket Adams · March 29, 2017 12:33 am

"I said I would," Leahy responded when asked at the Capitol if he would vote for cloture on the nomination. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pat Leahy says he needs answers from Neil Gorsuch before cloture vote

Joseph Lawler · March 28, 2017 9:52 pm

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Tuesday said Neil Gorsuch is "eminently well-qualified" and doesn't deserve to be filibustered, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to do. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nuclear option support builds: Key GOP moderate won’t rule it out

Susan Crabtree · March 28, 2017 8:22 pm