This week, in all likelihood, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will put the judicial filibuster to death. But when he does, it will not be accurate to say he is triggering the “nuclear option,” because Democrats already nuked everything that could be nuked in 2013. McConnell and Republicans are really just clearing away the rubble.

It also would not be appropriate to blame “both sides” and suggest that the Senate sank to its current nadir because the two parties took turns to drive it down. Nearly every outrage in the judicial wars of the past two decades has been perpetrated by Democrats, and mostly Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his predecessor Harry Reid.