Matt Gaetz meets the Senate

The Senate GOP has the power, should it choose to exercise it, to block Trump's controversial appointments

President Lyndon Johnson and his adviser, Abe Fortas. Photo by Yoichi Okamoto, LBJ Presidential Library.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson nominated his confidante Abe Fortas, an associate justice on the US Supreme Court, to fill the position of Chief Justice, succeeding Earl Warren.

Even though Johnson’s party, the Democrats, held 64 seats in the Senate…