 On April 6, 2017, Democrats filibustered (prevented cloture) the confirmation vote of Gorsuch, after which the Republicans invoked the "nuclear option", allowing a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee to be broken by a simple majority vote.On April 4, Buzzfeed and "Politico" ran articles highlighting similar language occurring in Gorsuch's book "The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" and an earlier law review article by Abigail Lawlis Kuzma, Indiana's deputy attorney general.Academic experts contacted by "Politico" "differed in their assessment of what Gorsuch did, ranging from calling it a clear impropriety to mere sloppiness."