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Deal by 14 Senators Retains Right to Filibuster Some Judicial Nominees.
WASHINGTON (June 6, 2005)--A last-minute deal by 14 U.S. senators stopped--at least temporarily--a vote on a Senate rules change that would have prevented Democrats from using the filibuster to block future judicial appointments by President Bush.
The 14 senators--seven Republicans and seven Democrats--signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" late on May 23, the evening before Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tn.) would have required the Senate to vote on his proposed rules change to prohibit any further filibusters of judicial nominees.
Frist's proposed reform is usually referred to by its supporters as "the constitutional option," but most often by ...
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...filibusters to prevent President Bush's judicial nominees from receiving an up-or-down...unconstitutional use of filibusters for judicial nominees," said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel...needed to either approve or reject judicial nominees. To subject nominees to a filibuster...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 5, 2004 700+ words
...Committee, be in charge of which judicial nominees make it to the floor of the Senate...And this will mean no pro-life judicial nominees will ever get out his committee...of President Bush's filibustered judicial nominees and he's for all judicial nominees...
Source: HighBeam Research, Deal by 14 Senators Retains Right to Filibuster Some Judicial...