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WashPost Columnist: Dems 'Powerless' to Block Trump's SCOTUS Nominee "Had Democrats not tried to block Gorsuch, they would still have the filibuster," Thiessen continued. "And Republicans, who now have just a single-vote majority, would have a much more difficult time mustering the votes to change Senate rules today. "But thanks to Democrats' miscalculations, the GOP doesn't have to. In an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, Thiessen said the Democrats' plight began 15 years ago when they began "unprecedented filibusters" against President George W. Bush's appellate court nominee, Miguel Estrada for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington in 2001. "Estrada was a supremely qualified nominee who had the support of a clear majority in the Senate," Thiessen said. "His confirmation should have been easy." "Had Democrats not tried to block Gorsuch, they would still have the filibuster," Thiessen continued. "And Republicans, who now have just a single-vote majority, would have a much more difficult time mustering the votes to change Senate rules today.,BR> "But thanks to Democrats' miscalculations, the GOP doesn't have to. Citing internal strategy memos obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Thiessen said liberal groups lobbied Democrats to label Estrada's nomination as "especially dangerous" because "he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment." "Democrats did not want Republicans to put the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court," Thiessen argued. "Instead, two years after his nomination, they made Estrada the first appeals court nominee in history to be successfully filibustered. FULL Doing the war dance here Boss.