Other Uses of "nuclear Option"
Beyond the specific context of U.S. federal judicial appointments, the term "nuclear option" has come to be used generically for a procedural maneuver with potentially serious consequences, to be used as a last resort to overcome political opposition. In a recent legal ruling on the validity of the Hunting Act 2004 the UK House of Lords used "nuclear option" to describe the events of 1832, when the then-government threatened to create hundreds of new Liberal peers in order to force the Tory-dominated Lords to accept the Great Reform Act.
The term is also used in connection with procedural maneuvers in various state senates.
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