If Trump has his way, the filibuster is on borrowed time

Vice President Mike Pence came to the Capitol last week to personally relay to Senate Republicans the president’s growing frustration with the slow pace of the Senate’s confirmation process. On Tuesday the White House got some in-house help from Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) who laid out his proposal during a closed-door meeting of Republican senators.

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The blueprint that’s picking up steam within the GOP is to drastically expedite executive branch nominees, including on many young, extremely ideological judges who will be appointed for life and have a say on everything from your right to obtain contraceptives to where you can buy a wedding cake. Experts say these recent hot button court cases are just the beginning of a coming wave of politically tinged cases that will be winding through the nation’s judiciary after Trump and the GOP leave their imprint on the nation’s third branch of government.

The serious reemergence of the “nuclear option”—which means the majority party in the Senate can completely bypass the minority—has Democrats and some senior Republicans nervous their party will follow former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s footsteps who was the last leader to blow up the Senate’s long-standing norms.

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