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Their only option now is the nuclear option. Just to let you know. NY Times says
Senate Democrats on Thursday filibustered the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, holding the line with a precedent-busting partisan blockade of a...
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on Thu Apr 06, 2017 at 08:28 AM PDT
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