Hearings on President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees open this week and all should be concluded after a day or two with positive committee votes and rapid floor votes of confirmation. Not a single nominee appears yet to be in any way endangered, and while interest groups on the left are furiously fundraising off of cries of alarm and doom, the “Reid Rule” adopted by Senate Democrats in 2013 means the GOP’s majority in 2017 will give the new president the team he wants, and quickly.

It also means that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee will also be speedily confirmed. Harry Reid set a precedent: It takes a simple majority to change the rules governing nominees and to make their confirmations a matter of simple majority rule. That precedent has yet to be applied to the nomination of a Supreme Court justice, but it surely does apply and will be applied if Democrats filibuster the nominee. Sauce for the goose and all that. Thank you, Harry Reid.