Ted Kennedy Killed the Judicial Filibuster Schumer: Democrats WILL Filibuster Neil Gorsuch Every news outlet in America is reporting that the Democrats have secured enough votes to filibuster Judge Gorsuch. At the same time, it is equally universally understood that the GOP is almost certainly planning to invoke the so-called nuclear option to confirm him through majority vote. No doubt the next several days will be dominated by thinkpieces wondering What This Means and pondering How We Got Here, but let me make a modest suggestion. This is Ted Kennedys fault. I was eighteen years old when he delivered his infamous summary of Robert Borks America: Robert Borks America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the fede...