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Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com)
halfEvilTech quotes a report from Washington Post: The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. On a vote of 54 to 45, senators confirmed Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court and is scheduled to be sworn in Monday. Gorsuch's confirmation was the result of a rule change in the Senate. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used the power of his position to change the rules of the Senate to lower the threshold on Supreme Court nominations to end debate from 60 to 51 votes. Therefore, "all presidential nominees for executive branch positions and the federal courts need only a simple majority vote to be confirmed by senators," reports Washington Post.
It is unclear as to what exactly Gorsuch's confirmation means for the tech industry. However, it is certain that Gorsuch will "face cases that demand a solid command of the complex issues digital technology raises, from copyright and privacy to intellectual property rights and data storage," writes Issie Lapowsky via Wired.
It is unclear as to what exactly Gorsuch's confirmation means for the tech industry. However, it is certain that Gorsuch will "face cases that demand a solid command of the complex issues digital technology raises, from copyright and privacy to intellectual property rights and data storage," writes Issie Lapowsky via Wired.
You can thank the howling incompetence of the Democratic party, along with the weak platform it stands on. They obsess over things that affect practically no one in the real world ("social justice") and things that only cost them elections, such as gun control, while their opponents are free to drag us back into a possibly-literal Dark Age.
Gonna get worse... a lot worse... before it gets better.
Because the Republicans were keeping a nominee from being confirmed just like how they stole the seat from Garland.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
The popular vote is meaningless but it's still true that the Electoral College has extreme problems, mainly dealing with the fact that states are "winner take all." That needs to be done way with. I'd love to see an amendment requiring that electoral votes from representatives MUST go to the winner of that district, and then leave the two electoral votes for senators to be up to the state to decide.
The reality is that tons of voters are disenfranchised by winner takes all because their votes may as well not exist. That would correct that problem and also correctly reflect the reality that there are no "blue states," only purple states with large cities.