Original sentence: Democrats rebuked Republicans and accused them of hypocrisy, stating that they had violated their own interpretation of the Thurmond rule, which they set in 2016 when they refused to consider President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland more than nine months before the end of his term
Edited sentence: Democrats rebuked Republicans' hypocrisy, stating that they had violated their own interpretation of the Thurmond rule, which they set in 2016 when they refused to consider President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland more than nine months before the end of his term