claim: says former president barack obama’s supreme court nominations "required 60 votes."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: feb 9, 2017 ... "look, obama's nominations required 60 votes," sanders said. ... says former  president barack obama's supreme court nominations "required ...
evidence_2: feb 2, 2017 ... two of the justices on the supreme court failed to meet a "standard" claimed by  democrats. ... y.) says neil gorsuch, president trump's nominee for the supreme  court, ... that president barack obama's nominees required 60 votes. ... first,  some definitions, as people often get these terms confused: a ...
evidence_3: jan 30, 2017 ... that means trump's nominee will need 60 votes to be confirmed by the ... this is  the first time a senate majority has stolen a seat,” merkley said in an interview. ...  barack obama, tried to block the confirmation of samuel alito in 2006 but failed.  obama's supreme court nominees each received more than 60 ...
evidence_4: feb 6, 2017 ... bernie sanders said president barack “obama's nominations required 60 votes.”  it's true that obama's supreme court nominees received 60 ...
evidence_5: jan 20, 2017 ... under the new rules, presidential nominees for all executive-branch ... for  keeping the 60-vote threshold not only for supreme court nominees but for the  cabinet ... “in years past,” he said, “there had been some sort of an idea that  presidents ... even though cabinet appointees needed bipartisan support to ...