U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is very wrong to weaken the Senate’s historic filibuster procedure — which allows legislation and nominations to be slowed or blocked in the absence of 60 votes. Thune, pushed by fellow Republican President Trump, is taking this damaging and drastic step over frustrations at Senate Democrats, who have been blocking dozens of Trump executive nominees (some of them real stinkers).

Thune is framing his efforts at least in part as resulting from annoyance that Democrats who enjoyed many unanimous consent or voice vote confirmations during the Biden administration are now blocking Trump’s people, as if the two circumstances were the same.

Yet Biden largely nominated career officials and longtime experts that, while having generally more liberal ideological bent, were basically qualified public servants........

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