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Jan 2020

Breaking: Pelosi caves, tells House Dems that she’ll transmit articles of impeachment next week

Ed Morrissey Jan 10, 2020 12:01 PM

“I did not have a single constituent in the last two and one-half weeks approach me and say you have to deliver those articles of impeachment.”

Mar 2019

Politico: Senate Dems “outraged” over McConnell use of mysterious precedent to change judicial confirmation rules

Ed Morrissey Mar 06, 2019 8:01 PM

He Who Shall Not Be Named.

Jan 2019

Time for a new nuclear option for judicial confirmations

Jazz Shaw Jan 23, 2019 2:31 PM

Putting in an express lane

Dec 2018

Trump, Daines to McConnell: Time to go nuclear on the border wall; Hatch: No, it’s not

Ed Morrissey Dec 21, 2018 8:41 AM

“There will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time.”

“Grossly irresponsible”: AG appointee Barr blasted Mueller probe on obstruction in June memo to Rosenstein

Ed Morrissey Dec 20, 2018 5:21 PM

With “potentially disastrous implications.”

May 2018

Reuters: Dems getting pretty dismayed over Trump’s success in judiciary, or something

Ed Morrissey May 07, 2018 6:01 PM

Petard.

Apr 2018

Lankford: It’s time to reimpose Democratic limitations on confirmation debate

Ed Morrissey Apr 24, 2018 8:01 PM

“Long term, for the health of the Senate, we can’t keep doing this.”

Mar 2018

A speed lane for Trump nominees?

Jazz Shaw Mar 22, 2018 8:01 AM

Life in the judicial fast lane

Apr 2017

Live thread: Will McConnell drop the big one on the Senate? Update: BOOM; Update: Cloture set on Gorsuch vote

Ed Morrissey Apr 06, 2017 11:21 AM

“McConnell doesn’t start many fights; he finishes them.”

Negotiations to avoid ‘nuclear option’ in the Senate collapse

John Sexton Apr 05, 2017 6:01 PM

“There’s so little trust between the two parties that it was very difficult to put together an agreement that would avert changing the rules.”

McConnell: Democrats “determined to head into the abyss, and taking the country with them”

Ed Morrissey Apr 04, 2017 12:31 PM

Ayotte: Senate Dems forcing McConnell to go nuclear.

Oh my: McCain backs McConnell on the nuclear option

Ed Morrissey Apr 03, 2017 5:01 PM

Game over?

Wait… do we actually have the votes to nuke the filibuster?

Jazz Shaw Apr 03, 2017 2:31 PM

Gang of three?

Cuomo to Blumenthal: Shouldn’t you save the filibuster for when “Ginsburg runs out of gas”?

Ed Morrissey Apr 03, 2017 2:01 PM

Thursday?

Feinstein, Warner, Leahy: We’re on for the filibuster

Ed Morrissey Apr 03, 2017 12:01 PM

Bennet: “I will oppose efforts to filibuster the nomination …”

Mar 2017

McCaskill: I’m filibustering Gorsuch over his “stunning lack of humanity”

Ed Morrissey Mar 31, 2017 6:01 PM

Flip flop.

Point and laugh: Watch these lowlights of Democrats’ shameless filibuster hypocrisy

Guy Benson Mar 30, 2017 4:41 PM

Bad faith clowns.

Gang-busters: Gorsuch confirmation on collision course

Ed Morrissey Mar 30, 2017 2:01 PM

McCaskill: “By the way, Gorsuch was one of the better ones.”

Sen. Lindsay Graham is ready to go nuclear (and here’s why the GOP should do it)

John Sexton Mar 23, 2017 7:21 PM

“If they filibuster this guy, it is because politics has taken over reason…”

Chuck Schumer thinks he has a plan to stop construction of the wall

Jazz Shaw Mar 07, 2017 12:01 PM

So this is where the Senate Minority Leader wants to focus his attention

Feb 2017

Gillibrand: Of course Neil Gorsuch will get confirmed

Ed Morrissey Feb 22, 2017 10:01 AM

And so will anyone else.

Schumer: Gorsuch will need to get 60 votes in Senate

Ed Morrissey Feb 07, 2017 9:21 AM

Liberal Yale law prof: You’d better give them to him, then.

Cruz: You’d better believe the nuclear option’s on the table for Gorsuch

Ed Morrissey Feb 01, 2017 10:01 AM

Plus: A Cruz-Bernie debate? It’s on.

Jan 2017

CBS: Senate Republicans convinced Trump that Pryor is a no-go for SCOTUS

Ed Morrissey Jan 27, 2017 10:41 AM

Nuclear freeze?

McConnell on nuclear option for SCOTUS: Trump’s nominee will get confirmed, period

Ed Morrissey Jan 23, 2017 4:01 PM

The consequences of the Pompeo betrayal?

Schumer: Hey… sorry about that whole nuclear option thing

Jazz Shaw Jan 03, 2017 8:41 PM

Regrets… he’s had a few

Dec 2016

Harry Reid has no regrets about invoking the ‘nuclear option’

John Sexton Dec 08, 2016 3:21 PM

“It’s good for us, it’s good for them.”

Nov 2016

The GOP probably doesn’t have the votes to nuke the filibuster

Jazz Shaw Nov 27, 2016 2:01 PM

The base is willing but the spirit is weak

GOP Senators hint at nuclear option if Dems block Supreme Court appointment

John Sexton Nov 18, 2016 1:21 PM

“…there’s an easy way and there’s a hard way.”

Jun 2015

McConnell: No more Obama judicial confirmations?

Ed Morrissey Jun 05, 2015 2:01 PM

The supreme test.

Feb 2015

Krauthammer: Kill the filibuster

Noah Rothman Feb 20, 2015 3:21 PM

“I’ve been radicalized.”

Dec 2014

McCain ready to reverse course on nuclear option

Jazz Shaw Dec 09, 2014 10:41 AM

“It’s rank hypocrisy if we don’t”

Mar 2014

Senate Dem to oppose Mumia-defender Obama appointee

Ed Morrissey Mar 03, 2014 12:41 PM

Exposing the nature of the nuclear option.

Jan 2014

Harry Reid: I think we all know who’ll be to blame for any unproductivity in 2014, am I right?

Erika Johnsen Jan 05, 2014 5:01 PM

Riiiiiight.

Dec 2013

Democrats quickly exploit Senate rules change to give Obama court advantage

Kevin Glass Dec 10, 2013 6:01 PM

Protection.

Nov 2013

McConnell on nuclear option: “If you like the rules of the Senate, you can keep them!”

Ed Morrissey Nov 21, 2013 12:01 PM

Desperate to distract from ObamaCare.

Reid to propose the nuclear option today?

Ed Morrissey Nov 21, 2013 9:21 AM

Speeding up or slowing down?

Reid prepping new nuclear option on filibuster

Ed Morrissey Nov 20, 2013 10:01 AM

Call his bluff?