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To summarize, what’s going on is that while many nominations only require 50 votes to end debate, diplomatic posts have generally relied on unanimous consent to end debate, and Senator Brian Schatz has announced that he will not be agreeing to unanimous consent on any of them, forcing a day or two debate in order to get them confirmed. Since the US has an ambassador to almost every country in the world, debating them all means spending a year or so doing ambassadorial confirmations, which is completely impractical, and unlikely to actually happen.
Isn’t that the bare minimum anyone in government should be doing right now?
It is, but this is the first of the Democratic Senators to actually start doing it, probably in response to constituent pressure.
The filibuster only comes up when it’s a reason why 50 D senators and a House majority wasn’t enough for Biden to do anything…
Now that it’s one of the last lines of defense against fascism Schumer would prefer everyone forget it exists
Should be but they keep voting Republican initiatives in and vote to confirm absolutely dogshit and fascist candidate in.
Yes. The real thing to watch for is which Dem gets the job of disavowing this guy for being divisive and unrealistic.
No, it’s even less than that.