Opinion: Mitch McConnell is making the Senate’s minority party increasingly powerless
By Editorial Board April 4 at 7:26 PM EVERY TIME the Senate majority leader has used the once-unthinkable “nuclear option,” which allows a simple majority of senators to rewrite Senate procedures over the objections of the minority, he has insisted he has a good reason. Mitch McConnell’s on Wednesday was that Democrats have wasted Senate floor time on uncontroversial presidential nominees for executive branch and judicial offices. “This is new, and it needs to stop,” Mr.
Fast-forward to President Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch in 2017 to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. With a Republican president and a GOP Senate, Mr. McConnell was the one to use the nuclear option, killing the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees by simple majority vote.
Step by step, the Senate is becoming a legislative body in which the minority party is increasingly powerless to object to presidential nominees, as long as the majority can keep enough of its members in line. Mr. McConnell’s move to strip the minority party’s ability even to delay nominees represents another step in the transformation of the Senate from one in which the rules force bipartisan compromise into one in which the majority can work its will without consulting the other party.
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