Senator Schumer Debates Gorsuch Nomination on Senate Floor, Nuclear Option

New York Senator Chuck Schumer engages in the floor debate over the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to sit on the Supreme Court, contrasting the blame game Republicans with the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Alito and Roberts with cloture petitions filed during the Obama administration. Schumer says Justices do not simply apply precedents, they set precedents which is why they should be able garner substantial bipartisan support. Schumer says that insisting on a 60 vote threshold for Gorsuch is more in keeping with Senate tradition than Republicans have held up Garland quoting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, adding that Republicans are more aggressive in selecting judicial candidates whereas Democrats choose judges nearer the center, that Republicans deploy new tactics to fight judicial nominees of president opposite and escalate old ones, concluding that the last time of the full Senate from Supreme Court nomination claimant party president is five,