“We should get it back to where it was. You can see the destruction that has happened around here.”
— Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), quoted by Politico in September, on re-establishing the judicial-nomination filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
“Simply put, if Republicans re-establish the judicial-nomination filibuster, it would remain in place only until the moment that a new Democratic majority decided that discarding the rule again would be useful.”
— Hatch, writing in the Wall Street Journal this week, arguing against reverting to the old filibuster rules.
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