Constitutional Law
Apr. 12, 2017
End of filibuster was inevitable
Whatever the future holds for Supreme Court nominees, both sides will have to live with the consequences of the end of the filibuster. By David A. DeGroot
David DeGroot
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David A. DeGroot is an attorney in San Francisco
Senate filibusters for judicial nominations are dead. Sen. Harry Reid and the Democratic majority killed them for all but U.S. Supreme Court nominations in 2013. From that point, it was only a matter of time before the filibuster had seen its last days.
At a tactical level, it is hard to explain why Senate Democrats invited the end of the filibuster. The nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat...
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