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The Senate Nuclear Option and Immigration
By Dan Cadman on March 29, 2019
The Washington Times reports that the GOP majority has had more than a enough of obstruction by Democrats impeding the constitutional advice-and-consent requirement for Senate approval of Trump administration appointees. As a result, they are going to use the so-called "nuclear option" to change Senate rules governing filibuster and cloture, which have the practical effect of requiring a 60-vote majority to get anything done.
It's about time. They had already discovered the need to exercise this nuclear option to change the rules governing Supreme Court appointments. If they hadn't, you can bet all the money in your pocket — and probably in your bank account and your inheritance too — that neither Neil Gorsuch nor Brett Kavanaugh would be sitting on the bench right now.
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