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“Republicans Use 'Nuclear Option' to Clear the Way for Gorsuch Confirmation
Republicans have triggered the ‘nuclear option’ - taking the historic step of changing Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, meaning that appointees to the nation’s highest court need just a simple 51-vote majority to be confirmed instead of the previous 60 votes that had been required. The move was made soon after Democrats mounted a successful filibuster of President Donald Trump’s nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, and sets up a final confirmation vote Friday that will send him to the Supreme Court.”
"We will not allow their latest unprecedented act on judicial nominations to take hold. This will be the first, and last, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nomination," McConnell added."
“The use of the nuclear option for Supreme Court nominees is dramatic for a body that honors precedent and rules and rarely changes the way it operates. In 2013,
Democrats used the nuclear option on lower court and cabinet nominees but
left the filibuster in place for Supreme Court appointees.”
Republicans have triggered the ‘nuclear option’ - taking the historic step of changing Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, meaning that appointees to the nation’s highest court need just a simple 51-vote majority to be confirmed instead of the previous 60...
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