A former top staffer to ex-Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused Senate Democrats of capitulating to President Trump’s judicial agenda while “apologizing” for judicial nominations confirmed during the Obama years courtesy of going “nuclear.”
Adam Jentleson, who served as deputy chief of staff under Reid, lashed out after Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee, lamented on Sunday how Democrats eliminated filibusters for most federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments in 2013 when they controlled the Senate and Reid was majority leader.
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