Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., argued a rules change was needed because Democrats were holding up President Trump's judicial and agency nominees. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
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Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, left, walks with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in March at the Capitol in Washington. Schumer is expected to become the new Senate minority leader, but with Donald Trump's election as president, Garland's nomination is done. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Republicans' Senate Tactics Leave Trump Wide Sway Over Nation's Courts
Monday
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves a closed-door policy meeting at the Capitol on Dec. 2. McConnell says he wants to make the Senate work the way it used to, but not all Republicans are on board. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Their Senate, Their Rules: GOP May Allow Blocking Of Nominees Again
Tuesday
Caitlin J. Halligan, then a lawyer for New York State, and attorney David Boies spoke in the Court of Appeals in Albany in 2005. On Tuesday, Senate Republicans blocked Halligan's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Jim McKnight/AP hide caption