Kibbe: The Supreme Court Has Become an Arms Race with Ilya Shapiro

The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro explains how Republicans and Democrats have been steadily ramping up the intensity of Supreme Court confirmation battles for decades, culminating in the so-called Nuclear Option, where Harry Reid eliminated the judicial filibuster. This ultimately paved the way for increasingly nasty fights over Merrick Garland, Neil Gorsuch, Bret Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

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