Will the Senate 'go nuclear' over Gorsuch?
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, March 22, 2017.
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Republicans in the U.S. Senate are threatening to do away with filibusters if Democrats don't confirm Neil Gorsuch.
Gorsuch is President Donald Trump's conservative pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, and many liberal senators have said they won't give him their vote.
MPR News co-hosts Tom Weber and Doualy Xaykaothao got the latest on the fight over Gorsuch from Kimberly Atkins, chief Washington reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald.
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