Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and I stood alone in a Senate office hallway a year ago, moments after Senate Republicans nuked the filibuster-rule for Supreme Court nominees in order to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. “The Senate has been damaged to a degree that it hasn’t been in its history,” McCain told me then. Now, with the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the court, a Republican president and GOP-controlled Senate have a clear path to confirming his replacement without any Democratic votes.



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