After months of talking about "resistance", Senate Democrats finally appear to be putting their money where their mouth is.

After days of testimony, Senate Democrats have seen enough of Neil Gorsuch - enough to know that they're going to try to filibuster him.

Chuck Schumer made that very clear during a speech yesterday on the senate floor.

"I cannot support Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. His nomination will have a cloture vote. He will have to earn 60 votes for confirmation."

60 votes, of course, is the minimum number of votes Gorsuch would need to get to avoid a filibuster.

This seems fair to me -- Gorsuch has essentially been nominated to a stolen seat. Shouldn't he have to meet the same minimum vote threshold as every single one of President Obama's Supreme Court nominees?

Will McConnell blow up the filibuster? And if so, is that really such a bad thing? It's not in the Constitution.

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Noam Chomsky: Is It Fair to Worry About Trump Staging a False Flag Terrorist Attack?" by Jan Frel.

Article: "September 11 attacks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Have you seen page 9 of @nytimes today, @SenSchumer? We'll take out as many as needed to fight for #BroadbandPrivacy" by PIA VPN Service.

Bill: "H.J.Res.86 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services"." by Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7].

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Article: "Operation Northwoods" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Michael Moore in TrumpLand".

Site: Our Revolution

Site: Indivisible.

Book: "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" by George W. Bush, Mickey Herskowitz.

Article: "My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

Article: "White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States" by Peter Gelling.

Article: "As In Flint, Cost-Cutting May Be To Blame For Pittsburgh's High Lead Levels" by Reid Frazier.

Article: "Four-and-a-half false statements EPA head Scott Pruitt made in just one interview" by Joe Romm.

Book: The FastDiet - Revised & Updated: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting by Dr Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer.

Article: "Larry C. Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Video: TV 2 | All That We Share.

Site: Challenge Day.

Article: "Bay of Pigs Invasion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dems Push Pelosi for Single-Payer Health Care After AHCA Fails" by Joel B. Pollak.

Site: Ulster People for Justice & Democracy.

Site: New York Progressive Action Network.

Site: Justice Democrats.

Site: Brand New Congress.

Site: America for Bernie Sanders 2020.

Bill: "H.R.676 - Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act" by John Conyers.

Article: "Bernie Sanders To Introduce Single-Payer Health Care Bill In U.S. Senate" by Peter Hirschfeld.

Site: BernieSanders.com

Site: Senator Bernie Sanders

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Movie: "Borderline".

Article: "Sessions Threatens to Cut Police Money for Sanctuary Cities" by Justin Sink.

Article: "Devin Nunes' meeting with source at White House raises Trump inquiry fears" by Spencer Ackerman, Ben Jacobs.

Article: "Lawmaker's 'peculiar midnight run' endangers Trump-Russia inquiry" by Julian Borger.

Article: "White House draws distinction between Nunes, press leaks" by TMN.

Article: "Kushner volunteers to testify before Senate Intel Committee" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Jared Kushner flew to Aspen same day as 'one of Putin's closest confidants' whose wife is pals with Ivanka" by David Edwards.

Article: "Warner, Schiff urge independent inquiry into Trump-Russia links" by Allen Cone.

Article: "GOP scrambles to defuse shutdown bomb" by Mike Allen.

Article: "Anticipated Trump Executive Order Will Ignore Science on Climate Change, Endanger Americans" by Ken Kimmell.

Hour Three: Your Questions on Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid...Answered
- Alex Lawson, Social Security Works    

Site: What's Medicare?

Site: Medicaid.

Site: Social Security.

Article: "Byrd Rule" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Social Security Disability Insurance" by Wikipedia.

Article: "An Interview with Michael Hutchison" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Survivors Benefits" by SSA.

Article: "The Reclusive Hedge-fund Tycoon Behind The Trump Presidency" (Robert Mercer) by Jane Mayer.

Site: "The No Billionaires Campaign".

Articles: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo ("On labor" 1814, "On profits" 1816, "of wages").

Site: Just Care.

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