THUNE provides the Senate “Suitcase Nuke” to accelerate the confirmations of candidates

The head of the majority of the Senate, Harry Reid (D -NEV.) Warm the first “nuclear option” of the Senate in 2013, slowing down the filibustier to confirm the candidates of the executive agencies – with the exception of the Supreme Court.

The former leader of the majority of the Senate, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Triggered the second “nuclear option” in 2017 to confirm the judge of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch, and lower the bar of the obstruction for the appointments before the High Court.

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Now, the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune (Rs.d.) is likely to explode the parliamentary equivalent of a “nuclear suitcase” later this week.

Thune will follow the game book established by Reid and McConnell to modify the precedent of the Senate (not a change in rules) to accelerate the confirmation of the lower level candidates in groups. This plan will not include judges or secretaries of the cabinet.

The American senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks on behalf of one of the judicial candidates of the American president Donald Trump during a confirmation hearing of the judicial committee of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, United States, July 30, 2025. Reuters / Elizabeth Frantz (Reuters / Elizabeth Frantz)

Thune puts her gambit in motion this evening by introducing a resolution to accelerate a list of around 40 nominated. By rule, the Senate will take a procedural vote to break an obstacle on its resolution to confirm the set of candidates on Thursday. This requires 60 years. The Senate will not be 60 years old.

But this is exactly the scenario that Thune wants.

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The kingdom’s coin in the Senate is an unlimited debate. But the only time he cannot debate something is when a problem fails. Thus, a failed vote to break the filibustier supports the Senate in the exact parliamentary cul-de-sac that wants.

At the end of the vote by appeal, Thune will probably pass her voting from yes to no on the breakdown of the obstruction. Indeed, the rules of the Senate allow a senator to demand a recovery if it is on the dominant side of the question. In this case, Thune is suddenly with the “no”, even if he initially voted yes to break the filibusier.

In doing so, Thune can then order a revote on the failed vote. And since the Senate is in this unique posture not to authorize any debate, the Democrats are paralyzed. They can do nothing to prevent Thune from what he then provides.

Thune will then make a command point.

Thune will affirm that on a resolution like the one he wrote, a block of lower level candidates (for example – those who are before the Senate) do not need 60 votes to break an obstacle. The president – potentially president of the Senate Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley (R -IOW) or even the vice -president Vance, who is the president of the Senate – will govern that Thune is wrong. The rules of the Senate and the previous ones require 60 votes to break an obstacle on this type of resolution.

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Thune will then demand that a vote reverses what the president has governed. He will say that a simple majority is necessary for this type of resolution – even if this has never been the case before.

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The Senate will vote. And if 51 senators vote in favor of the decision against the president, the Senate will have established a new precedent to reduce the threshold of 60 to 51 on this type of resolution – quickly moving a lot of candidates at the same time.

Once the Senate will do it, Thune will have to open another procedural vote under new provisions to break a balance sheet on Monday, September 15.