as a matter of principle because the heightened threshold will ensure the level of scrutiny you think necessary for the stakes of a seat like this. when we change the rules or had to change the rules in order to make sure the president actually got his cabinet because of all of the obstruction going on we purposefully did not change the threshold for the highest court in the land, the supreme court, because this is the place where people need to come together, you need to have a mainstream pick, this is about somebody who will uphold the constitution and not be ideologically extreme one way or the other and you do that with 60 votes so that s where i m coming from. i have great concerns about this nominee. i ll listen, i ll meet with him. the cases i ve seen that he has ruled on i m very concerned about but i think the biggest thing is that it needs to be a coming together and you do that with 60 votes.
michigan so i want to see a 60-vote threshold because i think that s what it deserves. i want to be clear. a 60-vote threshold, you re saying it should be filibustered as a matter of principle because the heightened threshold will ensure the level of scrutiny you think necessary for the stakes of a seat like this. when we change the rules or had to change the rules in order to make sure the president actually got his cabinet because of all of the obstruction going on we purposefully did not change the threshold for the highest court in the land, the supreme court, because this is the place where people need to come together, you need to have a mainstream pick, this is about somebody who will uphold the constitution and not be ideologically extreme one way or the other and you do that with voteso that s where i m coming from. i have great concerns about this nominee. i ll listen, i ll meet with him.
really challenge this president who even his own party has questioned whether or not he truly meets their bar of a conservative. many still say he s a liberal democrat who ran as a conservative republican. right. and this is the big difference between what we just saw as you were pointing out, chairman, plem, giving us a sense of his policy priority. those are order that can only go so far. the pick for the sport is one of the most important things. and as you see it will battle both what conservative republicans expect is a major priority and also what democrats are willing to afford because chuck schumer made news telling rachel maddow that if he doesn t see this as a mainstream pick, he s prepared to try to leave the seat open. and there s a lot of pressure also when you look at how
he has to get democratic votes or we ll have endless nominations and hearings and no justice. this is likely the first full fledged for fight. absolutely. this is the biggest decision a president makes t has permanent or long-term consequences unlike anything else. as greta was mentioning there say view, chuck schumer told rachel maddow this is not a mainstream pick he is open to leaving the seat i have cant, coming off a period of time where democrats are frustrated with what s happened before. having said that the blame goes on both sides when it comes to judicial confirmation battles. george bush s appointees at the circuit level were held up. if you look at the list of 19 names donald trump put out there previously, blessed by the two big power players in conservative legal thought, the heritage foundation and federalist society, they are by and large pro-life judges, more from state courts than federal, which is somewhat unusual and
panelists, but it has been quite a year on that front, but what about what s happening in the democratic party. what is their headline? they will go with more of a mainstream pick and maybe tom perez and we will see an ongoing civil war. is this going to be the party of bernie sanders or progressives and tim ryan and rust belt issues. who is the democratic party and they have to find someone to rally behind. is it bernie sanders or a new face we haven t yet seen? i don t think it can be bernie sanders because he is not a democrat. donald trump is not really a republican. he didn t join the party and it will be difficult for him to exert leadership. much of the party will exert that. they are cram belling for a leader and identity. they do not to be well equipped.