By changing rules and fighting forward the GOP party made sure that today, Judge Neil M. Grosuch was confirmed by the senate to become the 113th justice of the Supreme Court. 

The end of a battle that lasted more than a year, the tone is not one of relief but one of a win akin to a race where the finish line has been moved or a football was deflated.

Hoping to get a conservative as staunch as the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Trump and the GOP were adamant about getting a new justice on the court. But this is an even bigger win with a young justice who can serve 30 years or more on the bench. 

The confirmation was a sign that the uncooperative and bulldozing nature of Senate Republicans will only continue and amplify. The party that confirmed Grouch is the same that wouldn’t even consider Judge Merrick B. Garland on the basis of President Barack Obama leaving office.

By changing the rules on one of the last frontiers in bipartisan confrontation, the Republican and GOP senate has changed the tone and almost obliterated any effort of cooperation. By stopping the filibuster on Thursday with the nuclear option, the republicans showed that while they are the majority. 

And not only was the tone of the house changed, but the tone and reputation of the Supreme Court was as well. To move to such an extreme measure, marks a sign of political influence on the supreme court bench.