Trump backs nuclear option if Dems block SCOTUS nominee

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Trump backs nuclear option if Dems block SCOTUS nominee

The stance is sure to ratchet up tensions ahead of a showdown with Democrats over his high court pick.

By Burgess Everett

01/26/17 12:42 PM EST

Updated 01/26/17 03:42 PM EST


PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump and some Senate Republicans are now openly threatening to kill the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees — a pronouncement sure to inflame a brewing battle with Democrats over Trump's choice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.

Trump said Thursday that he would encourage Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to deploy the "nuclear option" — changing Senate rules on a majority vote — if Democrats block his Supreme Court pick. The president's stance could amplify pressure on McConnell — a Senate institutionalist who is reluctant to further erode the chamber's supermajority rules — to barrel through Democratic resistance by any means necessary.

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In his interview yesterday with Hannity, when asked about the nuclear option for the Senate, Trump replies without reservation, Yes.

So refreshing to get direct talk, not minutes and minutes of Clintonian-Obamian "is meaning of is," bull.