As reported by The Post's Seung Min Kim and Paul Kane last week, and confirmed to me by Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Senate Republicans are very close to changing the body's rules governing the amount of time the Senate can debate a nomination. Doing so will mark another important victory for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
At present, any single senator can deny unanimous consent to limit the time of 30 hours per nomination. And that's what Democrats did throughout 2017 and 2018, slow-walking every nomination. Republicans tried in vain to reach a compromise with Democrats that would reinstate the rules on time allocation that were adopted in a bipartisan fashion during the 2013-2014 Senate term.