Senate Republicans say that the cosmic order may soon be torn asunder. In response to the GOP’s recent filibustering of two Obama nominees — particularly, that of Patricia Ann Millett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — Democrats have threatened to diminish the power of a minority of senators to block confirmations by changing the filibuster rules. Republicans counter that this would, in the words of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), “destroy the very fabric of the United States Senate.”

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