Word: filibusterer
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A student-led filibuster has continued for eight straight days at Princeton, during which students have been speaking around the clock to protest Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s proposed procedural change that would make it difficult for Democrats to block President Bush’s judicial nominees...
In the last two weeks the sheer volume of bluster and bravado swirling around the federal courts has been dizzying. In the attempt to drum up public support for some less-than-moderate judicial nominees, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist R-Tenn. intoned “The filibuster was once...
During the current debate over the filibuster, the Republicans are employing similar large stroke tactics to paint the opposition into the corner and strong arm their agenda through. To fill openings in the federal courts, the President has appointed a number of ideo-conservative nominees, most of whom are committed...
In order to galvanize support for such an unprecedented change, Republicans are yet again appealing to their base through the lowest common denominator by telling conservatives that the opposition to the removal of the filibuster from Congressional rules is an attack on people of faith. According to those like Dr...
The real point isn’t that the filibuster is right or wrong on principle, it’s that the proposed rule change is being made by one party on its spin of the electoral wheel—in regard to irrevocable, life-time appointments. Parliamentary systems get...