History was made Thursday when 52 Republican senators voted to overrule Senate precedent and move forward with a vote on Judge Neil Gorsuch as the next Supreme Court Justice. Republicans used the “nuclear option” to bypass the Democratic filibuster. Gorsuch will be confirmed tonight with a simple majority vote.
“Republicans have accused Democrats of unfairly obstructing a qualified jurist, while Democrats argued that Gorsuch is too extreme for the court.”
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Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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