The Senate is unlikely to eliminate the filibusters over U.S. Supreme Court nominees because the confirmation hearings are too high profile, a Georgetown University Law Center professor said last week.
“I don’t think there’s much political incentive to do that,” Victoria Nourse said during a discussion at the law school on Jan. 28. “If there is something that somebody cares about in terms of politics, and that would have an effect on your senatorial campaign, it would be how you voted on a Supreme Court nomination.”
