alt Hacker News> 1 senator…
Oh, please, that’s not true. But yeah, you need 60 seats there in order to just ram things through. Right now Democrats don’t even have a plurality of the voting public so it’s not surprising that they are completely powerless.
> Democrats couldn’t even get a SC Justice…
On this one though I’ll fully agree with you, they were 100% ratfucked on Garland’s nomination. In no universe was that more than 0% ethically justified. That was a craven and cowardly scheme.
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The Supreme Court displays Democrat in abilities in a nutshell.
Republicans ignored ethics to not-seat Garland. But equally RBG decided not to retire when democrats held the presidency and senate, despite her age.
She is not the first person to put personal ambition ahead of country. There are plenty other examples, on both sides of the isle.
51 votes can get rid of the filibuster. You don't need 60.