@chrisgeidner I don’t think that’s true. If they hadn’t gone nuclear, McConnell would be doing it anyway if he has the votes
Yep -- Democrats have only themselves to blame for that thohttps://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/816734303119872000 …
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the only way you can fault Democrats is if you think that McConnell otherwise wouldn’t have had the votes.
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delayed reply: Democrats took the shock factor out of it and diminished the institution to boot.
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I don’t disagree w/that. I opposed the maneuver for a long time for the institutional component. By the same token, I think
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for lower courts, it became untenable given that we went from never having a filibuster of a COA judge to the minority
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filibustering all judges for a specific COA in a period of 10-12 years or so. But I still think the powerful conservative
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legal movement would’ve demanded the same maneuver now had Reid refrained fwiw.
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you may be right, but democrats made it far easier for him to do it. Filibuster of bills will be next to go, sadly, i fear
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