Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrat leader, called the nuclear option 'the end of a long history of consensus on Supreme Court nominations' that weakened the Senate's check on the president's ability to shape the judiciary. Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, accused the Democrats of an'unprecedented partisan filibuster.
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