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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died by DrScump on Sunday February 14, 2016 @06:55AM (#11097940)
<the Republican-devised "nuclear option" being used by the Democrats>

How's that again?

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died by geofft on Sunday February 14, 2016 @12:49PM (#11099148)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

The "nuclear option" was named by Trent Lott (R-Miss.) in 2003 and first seriously threatened by majority leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) in 2005. It got actually invoked by the Democrats in 2013, in the reverse situation: the Democrats had a majority but not a supermajority of the Senate, and a Democratic president.

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