GOP Invokes Nuclear Option

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BREAKING: GOP Invokes Nuclear Option

Democrats started it in 2013. Good on GOP for finishing it now.

    WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans invoked the “nuclear option” Thursday, overturning the body’s rules so Neil Gorsuch could be confirmed to the Supreme Court with a simple majority vote.

    The vote — entirely along party lines — was 52 to make the change and 48 against.

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the change — from 60 to 51 votes — was necessary to break a Democratic filibuster intended to block the Colorado appellate judge.

    “This will be the first — and last — partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nomination,” McConnell said of the history-making step.


http://nypost.com/2017/04/06/republicans-invoke-nuclear-option-to-help-get-gorsuch-confirmed/

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Senate Republicans Force Historic Rule Change to Advance Gorsuch


    New rule bars minority from blocking Supreme Court nominees
    GOP-led change clears way for Gorsuch confirmation Friday

Senate Republicans ignited the "nuclear option" to allow confirmation of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee and bar Democrats from blocking future picks, a dramatic rule change that could deepen partisan divisions and put more ideologically extreme justices on the court.

The 52-48 party-line vote called for by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday will let the Senate confirm Neil Gorsuch on Friday to take a court seat that Republicans refused to let President Barack Obama fill during his last year in office.

The rule change means Gorsuch and all future Supreme Court nominees can be confirmed with a simple majority vote and will no longer face a 60-vote hurdle.


https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-06/gop-begins-nuclear-rule-move-to-advance-trump-high-court-pick