Senator Tim Kaine’s announcement that he’ll filibuster the nomination of Judge Gorsuch could be the greatest example of hypocrisy from Senate Democrats during this confirmation process.
March 29, 2017
Tim Kaine: The Senate’s Biggest Hypocrite?
Senator Tim Kaine’s announcement that he’ll filibuster the nomination of Judge Gorsuch could be the greatest example of hypocrisy from Senate Democrats during this confirmation process. This headline from an interview the Huffington Post did with Kaine in October explains it all:
This is the key quote from Kaine’s interview in October:
“If these guys think they’re going to stonewall the filling of that vacancy or other vacancies… then a Democratic Senate majority will say, ‘We’re not going to let you thwart the law. And we will change the Senate rules to uphold the law that the court will be nine members.”
