a simple majority of senate votes is needed to confirm a supreme court nominee.
a simple majority of senate votes is needed to confirm a supreme court nominee.
how many senate votes to confirm supreme court nominee?
a simple majority
trump formally transmitted his nomination to the senate on february 1, 2017. the american bar association unanimously gave gorsuch its top rating—"well qualified"—to serve as associate justice of the u.s. supreme court. his confirmation hearing before the senate started on march 20, 2017.









































on april 3, the senate judiciary committee approved his nomination with a party-line 11–9 vote. on april 6, 2017, democrats filibustered (prevented cloture) the confirmation vote of gorsuch, after which the republicans invoked the "nuclear option", allowing a filibuster of a supreme court nominee to be broken by a simple majority vote.
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on april 3, 2017, the senate judiciary committee endorsed the gorsuch nomination, sending it to the full senate for final action by an 11–9 party-line vote, with all republican members voting for him and all democratic members voting against. the last time the committee's vote to approve a supreme court nominee split precisely along party lines was in 2006 on the samuel alito nomination.









































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