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The Democrats are carrying on as though there were an unbroken tradition, stretching back to the Founders, of using filibusters to require a 60-vote supermajority to confirm judges.(The Week)(Brief Article)
The Democrats are carrying on as though there were an unbroken tradition, stretching back to the Founders, of using filibusters to require a 60-vote supermajority to confirm judges. Actually, the routine use of the filibuster traces back only to the moment they decided to do everything in their power to block President Bush from putting conservatives on appeals courts. The Democrats have been successful: Bush has gotten a historically low percentage of his appeals-court nominees confirmed. A simple majority of the Senate can change the rules to prevent this abuse. We suspect that the Democrats' campaign of filibusters would come to a natural end even without a formal change in the rules, because the ...
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