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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

McConnell "Nuclear Option," also Bloomberg (!)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/trump-mcconnell-judges-1205722

"The Senate is on track to confirm the 34th Circuit Court judge of Trump’s presidency in the next week and the GOP has three more ready for floor action; that would give Trump roughly 20 percent of the Circuit Court seats in the country after just two years in office. At this rate, McConnell and Trump could leave few, if any, vacancies there for a potential Democratic president in 2021."

The Republicans only need a simple majority to change the Senate rules. Apparently, McConnell is prepared to move to change the rules if the Democrats resist during the next nomination.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-05/our-highest-office-my-deepest-obligation

"Now, I will take the next big steps. First, I will expand my support for the Beyond Coal campaign so that we can retire every single coal-fired power plant over the next 11 years. That’s not a pipe dream. We can do it. And second, I will launch a new, even more ambitious phase of the campaign — Beyond Carbon: a grassroots effort to begin moving America as quickly as possible away from oil and gas and toward a 100 percent clean energy economy."

I wonder how this will affect Democrats in Trump areas if Bloomberg's actively trying to close coal power plants.

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