***Must read: Senate/House Democrats basically have power to delay ACB nomination indefinitely***

[NewsCenter28]

If we support them, they can be brave and try this. Not exaggerating here so don’t you dare accuse me of such. I have loved studying parliamentary tactics all my life.

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

This is just but one of our tactics:

Utilizing Rule XIV — Any Senator can have any legislative measure placed on the calendar in two legislative days under Rule XIV. Leader Schumer could ask every Democratic Senator to introduce bills on their favorite subjects en masse and seek to put them on the calendar via rule XIV. Once they were on the calendar two legislative days later, if Schumer could get the floor, he could move to proceed to each in turn, file cloture, withdraw his motion to proceed, move to another, file cloture, withdraw his motion to proceed, and continue to repeat, stacking up an almost endless series of votes on motions to invoke cloture on motions to proceed to Democratic priorities, until the Majority Leader shut the Senate down.

[W_HAMILTON]

1. Fuck The Intercept.

[NewsCenter28]

4. You didn't even read the fucking article

Explain why the fucking tactics fucking outlined here won’t fucking work.

[W_HAMILTON]

13. You're right. I won't generate revenue for any of those pro-Putin puppets.

I trust Schumer and the other Senate Democrats have a much better grasp of what is and what isn't within their power to do than anyone from The Intercept.

I figure this is article was just written to be referred back to later on by the useful idiots at The Intercept when they use it to write more anti-Democratic articles and say that the Democrats didn't fight hard enough or whatever bullshit you can expect for them.

You know what could prevented this? The shitty writers at the shitty Intercept from needlessly shitting on the 2016 Democratic candidate for president and thus providing cover for Trump.

Fuck them, they can sit down and shut the hell up.

[triron]

20. Please list sources for your characterization of the Intercept.

Or remove your posts. A request.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. My source is living the past few years and seeing how they report on pro-Russia...

...and anti-Democratic Party stories.

If you need specific instances, a good one to start with is how a whistleblower went to them to show proof that the U.S. government had proof that Russia interfered in our 2016 elections and now that whistleblower is in jail because they outed her to the Trump administration.

[BannonsLiver]

6. +1

They throw out some ludicrous scenario that can’t be done in a practical sense.

Then they turn around and flog the “weak Democrats” narrative.

It’s classic Greenwald-Putin

[NewsCenter28]

7. How is this not practical?

Motions to Adjourn and Recess — Any Senator can move to adjourn, to adjourn to a day certain, or to take a recess. All of these motions take precedence over a motion to proceed to the consideration of a nomination. Senators could make a series of motions of this sort to force roll-call votes.

We should just roll over and let the court be stacked win religious extremists then?!

[brooklynite]

19. Why don't you contact Senator Schumer?

I’m sure a foolproof strategy like this hasn’t occurred to him.....

[NewsCenter28]

8. Why don't you want to fight this with everything we have?

N/T.

[NewsCenter28]

9. Also senate democratic staffers

Wrote the damn memo! You’re calling them ludicrous?

[Indykatie]

11. I Echo Your Sentiment - Fuck the Intercept

Biden, Schumer and Pelosi are no dummies. If there's a credible way to delay ACB's vote they will know what it is. Do we really think the folks over at the Intercept are aware of some tactic that no one else has hit on?

[OrlandoDem2]

2. Can rules be suspended?

[Amishman]

3. Easily. They can also just go straight to a vote on Barrett

That article is at best misleading

[NewsCenter28]

5. FALSE

Motions to Adjourn and Recess — Any Senator can move to adjourn, to adjourn to a day certain, or to take a recess. All of these motions take precedence over a motion to proceed to the consideration of a nomination. Senators could make a series of motions of this sort to force roll-call votes.

[Amishman]

10. Delatory motions are considered out of order

https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/post-cloture-rules-and-precedents

Dilatory motions and amendments are out of order. Whether a motion or amendment triggers this violation is determined by the presiding officer after a point of order is made (Riddick’s p. 311). The following have been found to be dilatory post-cloture:The presiding officer may, on his or her own initiative, rule out of order certain offending motions or amendments.

As soon as we do it a few times, they can state that the motion is intended to delay, and move onward ignoring it as out of order.

[NewsCenter28]

12. Ok sounds legit but what about doing the delay tactics

Before Moscow Mitch has a chance to file for cloture or even call the nomination to the floor? Also, theoretically, couldn’t we tie the presiding officer up in knots having to rule countless of our actions out of order? Then if we appeal the ruling of the chair, that eats up time also.

[Amishman]

15. I can't find definitive information on those, but I'm assuming it's a no go

On the general premise that this would be easier and more effective than the traditional spoken filibusters. Yet we haven't seen these tactics used successfully ever. I'm inferring that either their are procedural options or rules in place to squelch these tactics, I just can't find them right now. Alternatively they could just change the rules.

Or the chair simply refuses to recognize the senator who is attempting the delay.

[NewsCenter28]

17. Are roll call votes time limited like in the house?

Maybe we could refuse to vote and keep the senate in a permanent roll call?

[MOMFUDSKI]

14. my first thought

was why the rethugs wouldn't just hold the vote and to hell with the hearings.

[Walleye]

18. I agree. I'd be very surprised if they had a hearing

[Yavin4]

16. Mitch McConnell has the power to push this nominee through.

There's next to nothing that Dems can do. This is just setting up the "Dems are weak" narrative.