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