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What are the consequences of the nuclear option though? Is this guy worth requiring a simple majority in future votes?
Congressional Apocalypse.
Despite all the hooplas, nobody in their right mind actually wants to eliminate the only tool in the Minority's arsenal for a Supreme Court nomination, except for a handful of extremists on both sides who will bring up the precedent at the Federal courts during the hearings. They will quickly be squashed, because the rest are career politicians who understands full well what it feels like when their side wasn't in the majority.
I predict that after all this big talk from Schumer, and perhaps a symbolic half-hearted filibuster attempt even, Judge Gorsuch will get all the votes he needs from the 10 Democratic Senators who lost their States in the General Election, plus all the mainstream ones with functional brains who don't want to see Capitol Hill in chaos.
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