Everyone acts as though the Senate use of the Nuclear option has changed the role that will be played in the future for Supreme Court Justices. That changed over a year ago when the so called Senate majority leader decided that he would not accept the nomination of Garland from Obama because there was less than a year to the election.
What do you think is going to happen the next time the Senate and the executive branch are on opposite sides of the political fence? Do you think a Republican president will ever get a nominee through a Democratically controlled Senate again? Or vice versa?
No the Senate was radically changed a year ago. From now on the only way the Senate will confirm judicial nominees is if the same party controls both.
This is a win for extremists and another blow to Centrists and bipartisanship.
Garland was probably the best nominee in decades because he was a Centrist and he wasn't even allowed a vote.
