WASHINGTON — The “cooling saucer” of the United States Senate keeps going into the microwave. For the third time in six years, the majority party in the Senate detonated the so-called nuclear option on Wednesday to unilaterally change years-old rules of the chamber with a simple-majority vote. “There’s no other word but ‘hypocrisy,’” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader. The majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, justified his actions on the Garland nomination, saying Democrats would have done the same thing to a Republican Supreme Court nominee. And he said Democrats started the process in 2003, when they began routinely filibustering a Republican president’s nominees.

Source: New York Times April 03, 2019 19:45 UTC