Stopping the Filibuster Madness

Norm Ornstein:
“If the other two D.C. Circuit nominees are filibustered and blocked, I
would support Harry Reid’s move to change the rules now, to move from a
60-vote requirement to stop debate and vote to a 40-vote requirement to
continue debate. The argument that if he does so, Republicans will do
the same thing when they take the White House and Senate is a bad one:
Can anyone doubt that McConnell would blow up the filibuster rule in a
nanosecond if he had the ability to fill all courts with radical
conservatives like Janice Rogers Brown for decades to come? I hope it
does not come to this–and that the problem solvers in the Senate keep
their titles, preserve their institution, and stop the filibuster
madness.”