Update: Senate votes to go ‘nuclear’

This is how the Senate changes — not with a bang, but with a motion to overturn the ruling of the chair. By a simple majority vote, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set a new precedent in the Senate that will ease the confirmation for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Friday, after 30 more hours of debate on the floor. “This will be the first, and last, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court justice,” said McConnell in a closing floor speech/NPR. More here.