Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES

This is a thread about stopping a Supreme Court Confirmation. @SenSchumer. I’m not an expert on the rules of the Senate so I’ll leave that bit to others to comment on. I ran two Supreme Court confirmations. I spent a lot of time focused on thinking through how they 1/

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Could be derailed or stopped. The best way to think about this is to imagine the goal of trying to rob a safe full of gold on a train. @1880. What is the first thing you have to do? Obviously, you have to get on the train and make it to the safe. Of course that means the

Train has to be slowed, stopped or derailed. Slowing the train by all procedural means has to be the Democratic strategy. The minority should be focused on one thing and one thing only. Delay. Make the majority move the calendar back for the first time. Even if it is for a day.

The first day of delay is harder to come by than the second day. Barrett has serious omissions on her disclosure forms that require the time for appropriate scrutiny. There is a crisis of lying and coverup around Covid, the President’s condition, the extent of exposure

and specifically GOP Senate exposure. The White House and Campaign are in chaos. Strike now. Delay delay delay. @NormOrnstein