Monday, April 3, 2017

White House comfortable with using the "nuclear option" for Supreme Court nominee

The White House says President Trump is comfortable with the prospect of Senate Republicans using the "nuclear option" to get Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch confirmed.

Democrats have enough votes to use a tactic called a filibuster to block his nomination but Republicans may then resort to changing the rules to ram through their nominee.  

It's called the "nuclear option" because it could blow-up any resemblance of bipartisanship in the closely-divided Senate. 

White House spokesman Sean Spicer says the next step is up to the Senate majority leader 

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