Alan Dershowitz: 'Nothing Historic' With Nuclear Option, Gorsuch

Famed civil rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Friday "there's nothing historic" about Judge Neil Gorsuch being confirmed to the Supreme Court on a "nuclear option" simple-majority vote led by Senate Republicans.

"We've never had a filibuster for a Supreme Court nominee," the Harvard Law School professor emeritus told host Bill Tucker on "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "They got rid of it on the same day that they used it.

"The rules are a simple majority," Dershowitz continued. "That's what the framers of the Constitution put in.

"The filibuster was a Southern tactic designed essentially to prevent civil rights laws from being enacted."

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