“You’ll Regret This!” Democrats Threaten Colleagues After Supreme Court Confirmation

It took no time at all for the threats to start rolling in after Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court. Democrats vowed that Republicans would regret their decision to hold the vote so close to Election Day.

During a floor speech earlier this week Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer said, “The Republican majority is lighting its credibility on fire… The next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber you will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run that majority.”

“My colleagues may regret this for a lot longer than they think,” he warned.

In the past nominees would need 60 votes to be confirmed but in 2017 Sen. Mitch McConnell changed the standard to allow for a simple majority. His change made it possible to confirm two of President Trump’s previous nominees, Justice Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

Schumer’s comments sounded similar to those made by McConnell in 2013 when former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid first eliminated the 60-vote threshold to defeat GOP stonewalling of President Obama’s nominations to the executive branch and lower courts.

“You’ll regret this,” said McConnell, “and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”

Of corse House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had something negative to say in a statement released accusing President Trump and the GOP Senate for committing “an act of supreme desperation” with the election being so close.

Pelosi claims the confirmation was a manipulation made by Trump and Republicans to “achieve their years-long campaign to destroy Americans’ health care.”

“The President’s Supreme Court manipulation threatens the very values and rights that define and distinguish our nation: a woman’s constitutional right to make her own medical decisions, the rights of LGBTQ Americans, the right of workers to organize and collectively bargain for fair wages, the future of our planet and environmental protections, voting rights and the right of every American to have a voice in our democracy,” Pelosi argued in her statement.