Krauthammer: Democrats may have cost liberals the Supreme Court ‘for a generation’ – Washington Examiner

Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, reacting to Senate Republicans killing the filibuster option for Supreme Court nominees, said Democrats may not see the court tilt in their favor now for decades.

In an op-ed published Thursday night, Krauthammer said the GOP is set to confirm Neil Gorsuch and likely more justices that will erode liberals' grasp on the judicial branch.

"The Gorsuch nomination is a bitter setback to the liberal project of using the courts to ratchet leftward the law and society. However, Gorsuch's appointment simply preserves the court's ideological balance of power. Wait for the next nomination. Having gratuitously forfeited the filibuster, Democrats will be facing the loss of the court for a generation."

The GOP-controlled Senate voted Thursday to allow Supreme Court confirmations with a simple majority vote, eliminating Democrats' ability to block Gorsuch and future nominees by filibuster.

The power of the filibuster was first limited by Democrats in 2013, when the party was in the majority and voted to allow confirmation of presidential Cabinet appointees and lower federal court appointees by a simple majority.

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