GOP Could Nuke Filibuster For Supreme Court Nominees

Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.

Republicans warn that Democratic obstruction of Trump’s pick will come at a steep — possibly historic — price. 

Top Senate Republicans are drawing a hard line on the Supreme Court, guaranteeing that no matter what tactics Democrats deploy, they will be forced to swallow Donald Trump’s imminent nominee to the high court.

Republicans won’t come out and say it, but there’s an implicit threat in their confidence: If Democrats play things the wrong way, they might find themselves on the wrong end of a legacy-defining change to Senate rules that scraps the chamber’s 60-vote threshold to confirm Supreme Court nominees.

"We’re going to confirm the president’s nominee one way

 or the other. And there’s an easy way and there’s a hard 

way,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (right). 

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“We’re going to confirm the president’s nominee one way or the other. And there’s an easy way and there’s a hard way,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas). “They just need to accept that reality.”

“The Democrats will not succeed in filibustering a Supreme Court nominee,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, Cornyn’s Texas colleague. “We are going to confirm President Trump’s conservative Supreme Court justices.”

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