Word: filibusterer
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The Senate returned Monday from a two-week midwinter recess and immediately ran into two sticky dilemmas: 1) explaining to the rest of America why we don't get congressional holidays, and 2) a judicial nomination stymied by an old-fashioned filibuster.
The fight is in part about ideology. Democrats hear from Republican insiders that Estrada's beliefs are to the right of those of Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most conservative Justice. And they fear that Bush would try to elevate Estrada to the high court. The showdown is also...
Why are Senate Democrats kicking up such a fuss over a Hispanic lawyer who wants to be a judge? Their filibuster against Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born Washington attorney, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is risky for the party, since the G.O.P. has resorted...
The Crimson’s argument in support of the Senate Democrats’ filibuster of Miguel Estrada’s nomination to the D. C. Court of Appeals is ostensibly in the service of an open nomination process (“The Senate should never confirm a lifetime judicial...
My proposed reconciliation of this constitutional tension is to note the extraordinary qualifications of this candidate and to urge the Senate to confirm Mr. Estrada; actually, all the Democrats have to do is to allow the nomination to come to a vote. The Senate should assert its constitutional power against...