Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito nearly slid into Thanksgiving week unnoticed. Hearings, set for Jan. 7, will now draw increased Democratic scrutiny-and possibly a confirmation-halting filibuster-after the discovery of a 20-year-old Reagan White House job application documenting his specific political opinions. Colorado Democratic Senator Ken...
Still, for the moment, most politicians and activists on the left are keeping their powder dry, trying their best to express reservations about Alito without lashing out and sounding shrill. Absent a number of Republican defections, the Democrats will be unable to block Alito unless they resort to a filibuster...
As remote a possibility as that scenario now seems, it is enough of a threat that the Bush Administration has taken an unprecedented approach to selling Alito. Instead of first focusing on potential liberal opponents on the Senate Judiciary Committee like Ted Kennedy and Joseph Biden, Alito made many of...
The biggest non-Katrina event this week will be the Senate floor vote on the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice. Both sides say the vote will be at least in the high sixties. Unless there is a filibuster, which Democrats say will not occur, he needs only a...
And yet the relatively easy path ahead for his first Supreme Court nominee may be as much an indicator of Bush's weakness as of his strength. His sagging approval ratings, the public displeasure at events in Iraq and his inability to win support for his Social Security plan suggest...