I love how kids today are learning history and government from twitter...
btw it's called cloture
definition said:
The cloture rule–Rule 22–is the only formal procedure that Senate rules provide for breaking a filibuster.
In 2007 Sen Shumer rather famously came out in favor of blocking any of Bush's SCOTUS appointments when he was in the democratic majority during Bush's second term. Then flip-flopped back against the republicans blocking Garland, now he is back again in full block mode.
This is just team politics... nothing unusual to see here.
NBC (fake) news claimed the garland delay (block) was the longest in history, but there were several much longer delays back in the 19th century.
The real issue or dispute about SCOTUS justices is "originalist" (like Gorsuch) or the liberal trend of justices that think the constitution evolves and should be interpreted based on modern culture...(it doesn't evolve, that's why there are amendments so we can vote changes to the constitution. ).
I considered Garland when it looked like Hillary would win and he doesn't have much of a track record wrt interpreting the constitution. He was looking like a lesser evil to approve if Hillary won an could have appointed somebody even more liberal/progressive, but we fortuitously dodged that decision. Goresuch will be closer to Scalia than Garland bringing the court almost back to it's recent balance.
Of course the SCOTUS appointments are extremely important and the dominant reason why I voted against Hillary. The supreme court will affect this country for several decades, long after Trump (and I) take dirt naps.
JR
PS: I bought a small amount of Twitter stock as a trade, gambling that some real company will buy them... right now they have a half time CEO doing a half__ss job. I could see somebody like Disney buying them to roll into ESPN.