'Hope I’m wrong': Scholar panics that GOP poised to upend 220-year rule to gain more power

President Donald Trump pledged over the weekend to veto all legislation until Congress passes his voter-requirements bill, the SAVE Act — and, in doing so, may have set off a chain of events that could compel Senate Republicans to overturn a 220-year rule and grant themselves unprecedented power, one congressional scholar warned Tuesday.

Top Republicans have grown increasingly fearful that their party may end up losing control of the Senate in the midterm elections this November. And, with...