U.S Politics; The Price of Steele

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1 minute ago, WinterFox said:

But as regards this subject, the only way out is for Democrats to meet the escalated methods of conflict and force terms. It would only take a dozen or so Republicans to agree on reform.

To be clear, if the GOP agreed to have the majority of their caucus support a constitutional amendment that restored the filibuster for all judicial nominations - not just SCOTUS because the vast majority of case law that has real-life consequences is made by lower courts - then I'd be all for the Democratic Congress passing it and a Democratic president signing it.  But that's the only practical solution - any other return to the prior status quo can be too easily reversed and I don't believe the Republicans would be negotiating in good faith.  And even then, we'd just be back to the 2009-2013 era wherein the Republican minority invoked cloture on most of Obama's judicial nominees (or 2015-16, when the GOP Senate confirmed only 22 of Obama's nominees, compared to the Dem Senate confirming 68 in Dubya's last two years).  If the result in the meantime is no judicial nominations are confirmed during divided government, then so be it, that's on the GOP.