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5 years after going nuclear, Democrats have reaped what they sowed

By Thomas Jipping
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5 years after going nuclear, Democrats have reaped what they sowed

Wednesday is the fifth anniversary of an event that is still changing the course of Senate and judicial history. On Nov. 21, 2013, Senate Democrats exercised the so-called “nuclear option” to abolish the filibusters of nominations they had pioneered a decade earlier.

This is a story of how their best-laid plans went awry.

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