It seems to me that the "nuclear option" gives the Supreme Court to whichever party can win the Presidency with enough coat tails to get 50 or more Senate seats. I'm not entirely sure that's always a good thing.
It beats the tar out of giving a veto power to a minority of Senators.
1,328 posted on 05/23/2005 2:55:22 PM PDT by Cboldt