Nuclear option support builds: Key GOP moderate won’t rule it out

By Susan Crabtree

Published March 28, 2017 8:22pm ET

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Nuclear option support builds: Key GOP moderate won’t rule it out — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Tuesday said Neil Gorsuch is "eminently well-qualified" and doesn't deserve to be filibustered, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to do. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

Key centrist GOP senators who have long opposed the idea of “going nuclear,” blowing up Senate rules to more easily confirm presidential nominations are now changing their tune and warning Democrats not to push them by filibustering Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

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