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Terrific interview with my friend Steve. I enjoyed reading about the role my former boss, Jon Kyl, played in trying to rescue the nomination. Steve's quote: "The Senate is slow and frustrating, but it can work when there are strong relationships and mutual trust" is still the key to fixing a broken Senate. Sadly, we're a long way from that and still heading in the wrong direction. What's happened with judicial nominations, including the decreasing quality of nominees, is evidence that eliminating the filibuster for them in 2013 was a mistake.

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Thanks, Kelly. I respectfully disagree with your last point. Elimination of the filibuster on judicial nominations makes it easier to get both high-quality and low-quality nominees through the process. I think that all or nearly all of the best conservative justices and judges appointed by Trump would not have been confirmed if Democrats still had the filibuster as a weapon.

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