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Other events on the political horizon may animate conservatives as well. There's an upcoming battle over the judicial nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the White House Staff Secretary, to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court in the land. Kavanaugh, a 38-year-old GOP...
Few strategists in either party think a Democratic takeover of the Senate is likely, but many agree that the party's playing offense rather than defense is a remarkable turnaround, given that Democrats have more incumbents (18) fighting to keep their seats than Republicans do (15). But the G.O.P. failed...
Feingold isn?t alone in targeting these left-wing activists; Senator John Kerry?s leading a filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito earlier this year was also widely seen as a campaign tactic. Like Feingold?s censure resolution, it annoyed his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and had no...
You said Democrats hadn't made the case for a filibuster (of Sam Alito) but then you voted for the filibuster.
What I specifically said was, I will be supporting the filibuster, but I think we have to recognize that if we aren't making the case for our values and winning elections, then procedures inside the Beltway will not save us. I think that's pretty indisputable. I taught constitutional...