No, Sen. Graham the Constitution has not changed, but the nominees have — see you in the 2014 primary

Dana Milbank writing at the Washington Post: “Seventy-three of the 126 Supreme Court nominations,” Graham continued, “were done without roll-call votes. Something’s changing when it comes to the advice-and-consent clause. . . . The question I have for the body: Are we living in an age of legislative activism where the words haven’t changed in the last 200 years, but certainly the voting patterns are?” . . . Less than an hour after the vote, pundits were assessing the political damage to Graham. The Post’s Chris Cillizza judged that the vote for Kagan “ensures he will face a serious primary challenge in 2014.”