While Obama Remakes the Courts, Harry Reid Wants to Remake the Senate

If longstanding Senate rules are broken and changed, the majority party—whichever it happens to be—would have unprecedented power

Amy Payne, --November 21, 2013

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Every few months, it seems, Harry Reid (D-NV) threatens to upend the Senate so that he can push something through without following the rules.
This time, it’s the President’s judicial nominees. President Obama is already well on his way to remaking federal courts in the liberal image, but Reid insists this isn’t happening fast enough. The Senate Majority Leader is threatening again that he will break Senate rules to change the rules—so he can do anything he wants with the bare minimum number of votes (51). More...

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