As The Daily Wire has reported before, Senate Republicans over the last month have carefully prepared the foundation for using the “nuclear option” to lower the Senate floor debate time from 30 hours to two hours for federal district court judicial nominees and lower-level Executive Branch nominees. The Daily Wire reported last month:
For much of the past decade, the U.S. Senate has been involved in a bipartisan one-way ratchet to make the judicial advice and consent process easier to execute for the majority party. In 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) went “nuclear” and eliminated the judicial filibuster for lower federal court judicial nominees. In 2017, during the Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court confirmation debate, McConnell eliminated the same judicial filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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