re: #146 HappyWarrior

Guys, help me out here, trying to rebuke a point that the Dems got rid of the 60 vote requirement for federal judges including SCOTUS. I know that Thomas was confirmed by a simple majority as was Alito.

60 votes is just for cloture. The actual vote is just a majority. Dems got rid of the 60 vote cloture requirement for everything but SCOTUS because McConnell was blocking all votes on judges. They left it for SCOTUS. As Chris Murphy said, though, considering McConnell blocked Garland, he would have wiped all those restrictions when he took power.