C10 Blog Post 4

In my Ap Government class the other day, we were given an article that was discussing the Senate may do a filibuster on Donald Trump's nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat. According to an article from Politico, that Trump told the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to deploy the "nuclear options. This means that the Republicans want to change the Senates rule on the Majority vote, if the Democrats block the Supreme Court nominee. If getting rid of the filibuster it may not be could because it would make it much easier for future presidents to nominated and confirm more ideologically extreme nominees and basically throwing away the 60- vote threshold for legislation.

Filibuster