Last week Virgil talked about procedural motions that the Dems refuse to take to stop ACB's nomination. Does anyone have some other examples or resources to explain how Pelosi and the DNC are once again ignoring doing the difficult thing because its easier for their pockets?

    • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      David Sirota also laid out some of the same ideas:

      "Grinding The Senate To A Halt

      The Senate runs on the unanimous consent system — which basically means that to do its most basic business, all senators must consent. In this situation, Senate Democrats have the power to use that system to grind everything to a halt.

      They can refuse to grant unanimous consent for the smallest things.

      They can force the reading of entire bills aloud.

      They can hold up the federal budget that the government needs to run.

      They can use these tactics to try to push back any confirmation hearings on a potential nominee.

      And they can try to do these things at least until after the next president is installed — all while they remind the public of the hypocrisy of GOP senators who said they would not try to install a judge during an election year."

      https://www.dailyposter.com/p/primary-schumer-to-guarantee-opposition

      A memo was also circulated in late september that laid out 19 tactics the dems could use to stop confirmation:

      https://theintercept.com/2020/09/24/memo-laying-out-delay-tactics-circulates-among-senate-democrats/

      The democrats know all this and none of it will happen as they're controlled opposition.