Apr 5, 2017 ... As the debate over Neil Gorsuch's nominated to the Supreme Court ... The  Congressional filibuster – now being threatened against the ... The House of  Representatives still has this rule (so you'll never see a filibuster there), but  thanks to a bit of ... Has a filibuster every been used before on a Supreme Court ...
Mar 31, 2017 ... As the Senate considers Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, ... Supreme  Court vote … for over 200 and some years, has been an ... John Thune said  there's “never been a successful partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee.  ... At that time, a cloture motion could not be used to end debate on ...
Mar 28, 2017 ... It only takes a simple majority to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. ... Never  before has there been a successful filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee. The  Senate filibustered the nomination of Associate Justice Abe .... And he may not  even have the votes to get Republican senators to vote against the ...
Feb 14, 2017 ... Only once in history has there been a clear attempt to filibuster a ... Contrary to  recent mythology, there has never been a Senate tradition of filibustering  nominees to the ... successful filibuster of a Supreme Court justice in Senate  history. ... vote was used to advance a first-time nominee to the high court and ...
Jan 30, 2017 ... ... history that the Senate has mounted a filibuster against a nominee. ... Senate  Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme  Court pick no ... "The default used to be, unless qualified, confirmed. ... liberal  Democrats are successful in blocking his high court pick's nomination.
A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice.