If Harry Reid is still majority leader, what makes the author not even consider the highly probable likelihood that Reid would change the rules of the Senate without hesitation (by outlawing filibusters of Supreme Court nominees) if it suits his party politically?
The only reason he hasn’t done so yet is that there was no vacancy at the time. The Democrats needed to pack the lower courts with political nominees, so that’s the rule that Harry Reid needed changed. And he did. Anyone who thinks he wouldn’t do it again for expediency’s sake is a fool. The man is obviously shameless, and he can expect the same compliance from the media as when he did it the first time.
I suspect dingy harry did not go full nuclear on SCOTUS nominations is because even some in the dems, other than reid, have sense enough to know that would be a very dangerous precedent that would come back to haunt them with much greater impact when the GOP again gets the majority than their short-term goal of getting one Justice pushed through.
Reid’s semi-nuke Fed Judge pure majority rule change was a “stall tactic” tunnelvision move that did not consider that the public would turn against nobama.