The effects of last week’s

The effects of last week’s election are already being felt in the Senate. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee forwarded two nominees–including the Rocket Prof’s friend Michael McConnell–to the Senate floor on a voice vote. Prior to the election, both nominations had been blocked from obtaining a hearing by the one-vote Democrat majority on the Judiciary Committee.

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