Strategic Debate in Gorsuch Battle: Use Filibuster Now or Later?

...“It’s still a long shot, but you only get one chance to make a lot of noise about the demise of the filibuster and to try to preserve a mechanism that gives the minority some degree of veto power,” Mr. Hasen said. “It seems like it would be worth holding it for when it would likely matter much, much more. But Democrats seem to feel like they need to please their base and go on a suicide mission now.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/politics/supreme-court-gorsuch-filibuster.html