why do they vote twice?

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Buzz wrote:
Second, SCOTUS appointments ought to require a 2/3 majority vote in order to confirm.
That would fix a LOT of problems.
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They used to require 60 votes.

Dems couldn't get a judge through the process with republicans blocking every nomination throughout Obama's tenure, so they invoked the "nuclear option" on low-level judicial appointments which allows a simple majority-vote to move an appointment forward and disallowed filibusters for the cloture vote.

This set a precedent which republicans ran with to invoke the nuclear option for everything they do. They've used it to confirm every lowlife piece of trash Drumpf can come up with to fill a seat with their big fat butts and while the original amendments exempted SCOTUS appointments and left the original rule in place, republicans extended it to the SCOTUS to push through Gorsuch with minimal debate. (One might wonder, given what we've just seen of his buddy Drunken McRapeyface, what would have come up from a thorough investigation and debate on Gorsuch.)