WASHINGTON ― When Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch gets his Senate confirmation vote this week, he’ll need eight Democrats to vote with Republicans in order to reach the 60 votes he needs to clear a filibuster.
It’s not looking great for him.
There are 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats (including the two independents who caucus with them). Democrats are, by and large, vowing to filibuster Gorsuch and demanding that President Donald Trump put forward a more mainstream pick. But Republicans are signaling that if they can’t get the 60 votes they need, they’ll retaliate by changing the rules so it only takes 51 votes to advance a Supreme Court nominee ― a prospect that’s bumming out senators in both parties who love their institution and its rules.
If Republicans get the 60 votes they need to clear the filibuster, it only takes 51 votes to confirm Gorsuch after that.
Here’s where every Democrat stands on joining the filibuster against Gorsuch. We’ll update the list as more Democrats announce how they’ll vote. It takes 41 Democrats to block Gorsuch.
JOINING FILIBUSTER (37)
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.)
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.)
Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.)
Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio)
Sen. Maria Cantwell (Wash.)
Sen. Tom Carper (Del.)
Sen. Bob Casey (Pa.)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.)
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.)
Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.)
Sen. Al Franken (Minn.)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.)
Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sen. Martin Heinrich (N.M.)
Sen. Mazie Hirono (Hawaii)
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.)
Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.)
Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.)
Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.)
Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.)
Sen. Bill Nelson (Fla.)
Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.)
Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
Sen. Brian Schatz (Hawaii)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)
Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.)
Sen. Tom Udall (N.M.)
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.)
Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.)
VOTING WITH REPUBLICANS TO END FILIBUSTER (3)
Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.)
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.)
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.)
HAVEN’T SAID (6)
Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.)
Sen. Chris Coons (Del.)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)
Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.)
Sen. Mark Warner (Va.)
SQUISHY (2)*
Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.)
Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.)
*These senators have hinted that they’ll vote with Republicans to end the filibuster, but then vote against Gorsuch’s confirmation. But they’re still mostly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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