Three bold Supreme Court moves for Trump, GOP

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Washington Examiner:

Donald Trump Election Means Change For The Supreme Court

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell feels vindicated for successfully blocking Merrick Garland, President Obama's choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy for nearly a year. But Democrats aren't likely to let such an aggressive move slide, and the payback could get ugly with other high-court vacancies likely during Trump's first term.

 

Incoming Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is known for playing hardball so President-elect Donald Trump and Senate Republicans now have to carefully plot their next move in the high-stakes game of filling the critical lifetime post.

 

This week after the election, Washington is filled with talk that McConnell could up the ante on Democrats and go "nuclear," changing Senate rules to require a simple majority instead of 60 votes to end a filibuster of a president's high court pick.

 

 

Here are three other ways Republicans and Trump could turn the table on Democrats and make them rethink any plans to block Trump's nominees and retaliate against McConnell: